The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
ALAN BERSINMexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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.
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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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 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 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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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