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Juarez had become a failed city. The mayor of Juarez lived in El Paso. Not only did he not live in his own city, he didn't live in his own country. You had all these kids out of school who didn't want to work because they saw their mothers toiling in jobs for hardly any cash.

Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.

Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.

There's something magical about Oaxaca and the vibe of the people.

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.

New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.

Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.

Together we are building a new Mexico.