In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
ALAN BERSINWe 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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During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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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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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in 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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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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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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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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