This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
ALAN BERSINCross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.
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The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There’s hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn’t have a cause or effect that’s generated abroad. Increasingly.
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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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