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.
ALAN BERSINAn increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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