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ALAN BERSINPeople should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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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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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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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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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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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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