The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
ALAN BERSINYou 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 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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