The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
ALAN BERSINMore Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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 have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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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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