This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
ALAN BERSINToday, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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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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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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