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.
ALAN BERSINIn 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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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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We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.
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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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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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