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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. We make things together. We have shared production platforms. 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.

  Alan Bersin

  Together, Borders, Needs

  Source: www.salon.com

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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.

  Alan Bersin

  People, United States, Mexico

  "Border 101". Article by Brady McCombs, tucson.com. October 24, 2010.

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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. As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States. To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.

  Alan Bersin

  War, Past, Insult To Injury

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.

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  World, Cooperation, Economic

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society. This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.

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  Class, Roots, People

  Source: www.salon.com

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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. Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.

  Alan Bersin

  World, Economy, Trade

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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. We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities. 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.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, People, Borders

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There's hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn't have a cause or effect that's generated abroad. Increasingly, we must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Government, Data

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers. And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum. That's the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Political, Protection

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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. 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.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Data, Information Sharing

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive. 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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  Mother, Wall, Texas

  Source: www.salon.com

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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, 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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  Gun, Organization, America

  Source: www.salon.com

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• In today's digital online world, those who don't share information will be isolated and left behind.

  Alan Bersin

  World, Online, Share

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Indeed, many of the illegal crossers who have entered the country in the last two years after being detained have actually been either unaccompanied minors or families who request political asylum. The ability of the smugglers to attract large numbers of families and unaccompanied minors is a function of the inability of our immigration court system to process asylum claims in a timely fashion.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Fashion, Political

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States. The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.

  Alan Bersin

  Running, Country, Protection

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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.

  Alan Bersin

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases. The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases. There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States. This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.

  Alan Bersin

  Mexican, Immigration, Program

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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. 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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  Wall, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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. 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.

  Alan Bersin

  Wall, Strategy, Sophisticated

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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.

  Alan Bersin

  Wall, People, Accepted

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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. The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Bus

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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.

  Alan Bersin

  Southern, Term, Security

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before. 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.

  Alan Bersin

  Safety, Effort, Safety And Security

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation. The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region. Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That's because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.

  Alan Bersin

  Today, Crime, Situation

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature. 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.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Democracy, Receiving

  Source: www.salon.com

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