only ones who cross the border daily from juarez. meet ray rosales, the dude on the red harley. he immigrated to the u.s. when he was 7, he s got two grown kids and works the punch press at a metal stamping factory in el paso. obviously it s a lot cheaper. dollars over there versus pace owes, i m living like a king. you re living like a king down there? ten years ago, juarez had the highest murder rate in the world, but a crackdown by law enforcement and a truce between the cartels drove crime down, though there is still quite a bit of drug-related violence. a lot of people think of juarez it s a scary place, i d never want to go there in my life. you do it every day and you re not scared. a lot of people look at it as it s dangerous. you re going do get killed. you can t go to a restaurant. you can t go here. it s not true. not true? not true. not true. i mean, there are sections, like anywhere else. like in chicago and new york,
anywhere else. 1 in 4 jobs in the el paso area depends on cross-border commerce with mexico. ray is one of 635 employees at family-run key southwest which last year sold $12 million worth of metal parts to mexico. and often collaborates with countries south of the border to create products for the american automobile industry. so about 90% of our product produced in this facility ships to mexico. we ship to mexico every single day. brad is ray s boss. this is amazing. this machine will make about 30,000 of these every day. 30,000 of these. and every one of the 30,000 clamps that come off this machine go to mexico. come back here, go back to mexico and end up in an american car. come back to the united states. oh, sorry. those got to be scrapped? oh, really? oh, no. they have lots of customers