Doing Business on the U.S.-Mexico Border

“Still, a longstanding economic relationship continues to grow all along the 1,952-mile U.S.-Mexico boundary and its 14 sister cities. At least 10 million people live along the border, and its twin cities share common airsheds and watersheds. The U.S.-Mexico border is the worlds busiest, with an estimated 250 million legal crossings from Mexico each year. More than a million undocumented Mexican workers are apprehended in the United States each year. Pushed east by stepped-up security in the San Diego-Tijuana area, hundreds of Mexicans trying to cross the nearly 300-mile Arizona-Sonora border have died in recent years.

But despite the immigration debate in America and presidential controversy in Mexico, residents of the U.S.-Mexico border area often have more in common with each other than they do with their own nations. The area, usually described as extending about 60 miles north and south of the border, constitutes it own economic region.”

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