The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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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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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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 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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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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