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 BERSINWe 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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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 Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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