Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
ALAN BERSINWe have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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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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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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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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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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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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