Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
ALAN BERSINI 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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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.
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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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