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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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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 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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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