Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
ALAN BERSINBut 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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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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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Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.
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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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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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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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We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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