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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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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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Cash Country Criminal Include Institute Launder Organization Smuggling
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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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 air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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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 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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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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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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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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Border Control Country Crucial Done Migrant Own Security Southern Term Work
As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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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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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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