Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
ALAN BERSINOur security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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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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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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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
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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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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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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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