We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
ALAN BERSINMore Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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