In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
ALAN BERSINPeople 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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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We 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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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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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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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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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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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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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