Many items that we routinely use in the United States are produced in Mexico and closing the border would have a crippling effect to the United States.
The leaders reportedly discussed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico and the United States, border security and immigration.
The police chief of Tijuana , a city on Mexico's border with the United States, was ambushed and murdered, probably by a drug gang.
Both Clinton and Obama voted to authorize President Bush to build a border fence between the United States and Mexico -- but both said Thursday they would consult with leaders in border areas about where fencing is needed and where other methods could be used to secure the borders.
Migration and the trafficking of drugs and guns across Mexico's northern border with the United States capture endless headlines. (This week agents fired at three vans containing 74 illegal immigrants as they failed to stop at a border crossing near San Diego.) But many of these problems are quietly mirrored on its southern frontier.
In Mexico, cities near the border with the United States should especially be avoided.
And another is the border between Mexico and the United States, complete with the proposed chain-link fence and its controversial two-foot overhang into Mexico.
Twenty years ago, he hopped a border fence from Mexico into the United States and became a migrant farmworker.
The case involved Howard and Maureen Cotterman, both citizens of the United States, who drove from Mexico and crossed the border at Lukeville, Ariz. on April 6, 2007.
The violence in Mexico and elsewhere south of the border could spill over to the United States, says the report, issued in November by the U.S. Joint Forces Command.
The United States has a 2, 000 mile land border with Mexico, and an equally long maritime border with the island states of the Caribbean.
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When NAFTA went into effect in 1995, the United States and Mexico agreed on a provision to allow lorries freely to cross the border.
That instability could threaten the United States' underbelly along the 2, 000-mile border with Mexico.
The United States and Mexico are also working more closely together to speed legal trade across the border.
Unfortunately, it is this version of Mexico that often informs the impression outsiders form of the country, particularly across the border in the United States.
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On a later trip, U.S. Border Patrol Agents caught and returned him to Mexico but he later succeeded in entering the United States and benefitted from the aftermath of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, signed by President Ronald Reagan, which gave legal status to many undocumented immigrants.
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