U.S.-Mexico Border Mayors reunion in Tijuana
By Adina Moloman
Sources: www.afntijuana.info; www.tijuanapress.com
The meeting of the U.S.-Mexico Border Mayors Association was held in Tijuana at the World Trade Center.
The main themes analyzed during a news conference following by closed-door meetings were: migration (measures to attend the numbers of Mexicans deported from the U.S) ,the importance of economic development at border towns, the importance of changing negative perceptions about public safety in Mexican border, border cities infrastructure (new points of entry from Mexico to US to facilitate traffic reduction at border lines), measures to attend unemployment, investments between US-Mexico Corporation etc.
Participants at the reunion where mostly mayors from both countries. The mexican representants were: Carlos Bustamante Tijuana Mayor, Francisco Pérez Tejada Mexicali Mayer; Javier Robles Aguirre, Rosarito Mayer; Enrique Pelayo Torres Ensenada Mayer; Alberto Aguirre Villarreal Acuña Mayer, Coahuila; Manuel de Jesús Baldenebro Arredondo, San Luis Rio
Colorado Mayer; Vicente Terán Uribe , Agua Prieta Mayer; Juan Antonio Balderas Bilboa, Jiménez, Coahuila Mayer, Santos Javier Garza García Anáhuac, Nuevo León Mayor; Alberto González Peña de Mier, Tamaulipas Mayer; Juan Diego Guajardo Anzaldua Rio Bravo Mayor; José Ángel Hernández Barajas Nogales Mayor; Héctor Agustín Murguía Lardizabal Juárez Mayor; Adriana Teissier Zavala, Cozumel representant; Judith Fabiola Vázquez Saud, Acayuca, Veracruz Mayor and Everardo Villarreal Salinas Reynosa, Tamaulipas Mayor.
US representants: John Cook El Paso, Texas Mayor, Jerry Sanders San Diego, California Mayor; Madeleine Praino Village of Vinton Mayor; Daniel Romero Calexico Mayor and Ken Miyagishima Las Cruces, Nuevo México.
Special guests: Alan Bersin, assistant secretary of international affairs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Manlio Fabio Beltrones, a Mexican senator from Sonora and a member of Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party.
This was the second edition, held in Tijuana, after a first edition which took place in El Paso Juarez, last year. A full report of this reunion is expected any time soon.
