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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.

Alan Bersin

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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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 Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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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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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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