1. Preserving and Strengthening the U.S.-Mexico Relationship
- Author:
- Dan Restrepo, Michael Werz, and Joel Martinez
- Publication Date:
- 01-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Center for American Progress - CAP
- Abstract:
- The United States and Mexico share far more than a 1,989-mile border.1 The two countries share a deep, complex history. This history is marked by ups and downs; by war and cooperation; by competition and collaboration; by the movement—northbound and southbound—of millions of people across a shared border in search of a better future; by a trickle of trade and today’s flow of more than $1.5 billion of goods and services crossing the border every day.* As the new U.S. administration transitions from rhetoric to reality and from campaigning to governing, it will inherit a U.S.-Mexico relationship in perhaps the best shape it has ever been. But it will also inherit a relationship threatened by President Donald Trump’s repeated vilification of Mexico and Mexicans. If that vilification becomes official U.S. policy, it will harm the United States—at home, throughout the Americas, and around the globe—because of the profound transformations that have unfolded over the past 30 years in Mexico and in the bilateral relationship itself.
- Topic:
- Diplomacy, International Trade and Finance, Regional Cooperation, and Bilateral Relations
- Political Geography:
- North America, Mexico, and United States of America