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.
ALAN BERSINMore Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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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 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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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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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.
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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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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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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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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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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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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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