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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

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If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.

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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…

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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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