Vázquez
is the executive director of Organizing For Progress and is a transfronterizo who lives in the San Diego and Tijuana region.
In states along the U.S.-Mexico border, one thing that is very clear is that local and state governments are on the same page when it comes to awareness of binational economies in their bordering cities. The states of Baja California and California, for example, have a solid history of working in partnership to improve their ever more interdependent economies.
However, when it comes to the views of the local and federal governments, what we see rather is a very clear disconnect between them.