Roger Noriega: “I agree with you, that we should defend human rights everywhere.”

There is always in Mexico a wariness about the power of the United States vis-a-vis Mexican sovereignty.

I believe we have a significant opportunity to recapture the initiative where our priorities are at stake: Democracy, security, and prosperity.

No event in recent years has underscored the vulnerability of our Southwest border as dramatically as the wave of illegal immigrants, many of them children, crossing in record numbers last year.

I see the border as where our two nations are joined, not where they are divided.