Posted on 03/04/2011 9:02:55 AM PST by smokingfrog
The high crime rate in Ciudad Juárez has spurred many Mexican businessmen to transfer their business operations to El Paso, where there are already 100 new companies that have opened their doors in U.S. territory.
Juárez, just across the Rio Grande from this Texas city, is Mexico's murder capital, where more than 8,000 people have died since early 2008 in drug-related mayhem.
The Juárez business owners now in El Paso have created an organization, La Red (The Network), to provide logistical support so that Mexican exiles can begin their business activities anew.
"We Mexican businessmen who invest in El Paso come to create sources of work, to put in our grain of sand so that the local economy becomes strengthened; and not to ask for help from the government or be a burden for U.S. citizens," La Red president Jose Luis Mauricio Esparza told Efe.
The organization has more than 450 members, among whom are owners of restaurants, bars, furniture stores and many other businesses, as well as hundreds of professionals who have begun to get their careers going in the United States.
Yet some El Paso residents are concerned about the arrival of the businessmen, thinking that along with them could come an overflow of the violence that is being experienced in Mexico.
"The arrival of so many people from the most dangerous city in the world is worrying, since we don't know who is who, and what could come to pass with them here," said Juan Uribe, the owner of a real estate brokerage firm in El Paso.
Uribe said that the real estate sector has not benefited at all from the arrival of the Juárez businessmen, since many of them come without much capital to invest.
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It would really be nice if our politicians thought enough of American citizens to actually DEFEND and SECURE OUR BORDER.
Thank you for posting this link. Suburbs in Florida are experiencing this wave. I used to live in a safe neighborhood.
No American politician will ever take steps to control the border; too much drug money and too many fraudulent voters.
Your welcome it’s terrible they are bringing their crime with them to cities all over America.
a few years ago RCA moved to Juarez from Indiana. Taking thousands of jobs with them. Too bad =/
There were still business in Juarez? Were it me, I would have run, like, at least 20 years ago.
Last time i’ve been to el paso it already seemed to be the northern part of chuarez.
Thomson Consumer Electronics, successor to RCA-Victor, moved what was once the world's largest TV factory located in Bloomington, Indiana the self-proclaimed "Color Television Capital of the World" to Mexico, laying off 1,200 workers. The Indiana Department of Workforce Development has tracked the Thomson workers: Only 8% found jobs that match or better their old pay. The rest are either working for less, are unemployed, or have left the work force.
Scary, isn’t it?
“as well as hundreds of professionals”
Brothels?
There has been a mass exodus into Texas from Mexico for years...This is nothing new...
“I think it was more than 10 years ago...
Thomson Consumer Electronics, successor to RCA-Victor, moved what was once the world’s largest TV factory located in Bloomington, Indiana the self-proclaimed “Color Television Capital of the World” to Mexico, laying off 1,200 workers. The Indiana Department of Workforce Development has tracked the Thomson workers: Only 8% found jobs that match or better their old pay. The rest are either working for less, are unemployed, or have left the work force.
All CRT televisions back then, I’m sure. I wonder if Thompson still assembles TVs in Mexico? “
I worked for awhile at RCA in Bloomington around 1981-82. I could see the slipping of technology back then (remember the huge video disc players?) Most of their R&D was a bunch of old TV guys ready to retire.
One of the buildings there was used to assemble radios back in the 1940’s. Until they moved to Mexico they had a factory in Indy as well as Marion Indiana. The Marion plant was where color TV was researched and INVENTED! For several years this plant manufactured EVERY COLOR TV IN THE WORLD!
After Thompson acquired RCA they built a good sized R&D and administration building in Carmel, Indiana. They closed the plant in Bloomington around this time and used part of it for warehousing complete TV’s or assemblies for shipping to and from Mexico.
RCA collapsed due to bad management, investing in the wrong technology, too much deadwood in management and engineering.
Now, I don’t think there is ANYTHING left.
Oh, yea, there has been a GE plant in Bloomington for years building refrigerators and such. I think closed now.
(Oh, yea, I make a lot more now than I did then and a much more stable job. And I’m not part of a union ;-)
Yeah, and all the new jobs they bring will go to illegals.
Businesses my a$$...
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