Arizona lawmakers get a glimpse of life on Mexican border

“Nogales, Sonora Mayor Marco Antonio Martinez Dabdoub knows that although Nogales, Sonora faces many problems, Arizona state lawmakers are mostly powerless to help him. That didnt stop him from telling a handful of state senators about the issues in his city.

“Mexico City says we have 200,000 people in Nogales, Sonora although the number is closer to 300,000,” he said. “The fact is, people in Mexico are coming north and as a result two trends are developing.”

Those trends represent the best and worst of a border community. Martinez said that some people who go to the United States to work lose their Mexican cultural identity, but fail to gain an American one.”

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