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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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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 have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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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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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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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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