PHOENIX (AP) — The mayors of Phoenix and Tucson lead a trade mission to Mexico this week as part of effort to foster relations with Arizona's largest trading partner.
Phoenix's Greg Stanton and Tucson's Jonathan Rothschild will be joined by Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski, Phoenix City Manager David Cavazos, representatives from the Greater Phoenix Economic Council and various Arizona chambers of commerce.
The group will travel to Hermosillo to meet with Sonora Gov. Guillermo Padres Elias and others and then tour a manufacturing facility.
They later will head to Mexico City to meet with representatives from the Mexico Secretary of Tourism, Aeromexico, U.S. Ambassador and Mexico Secretary of Foreign Affairs and others.
Cavazos says Mexico is Arizona's largest trading partner with the state exporting $5.7 billion in merchandise to Mexico last year.
Juggernaut8000 posted at 1:06 pm on Tue, Aug 14, 2012.
Trade? How about we trade all the crime dirty illegals bring to this State by trading each and every illegal immigrant back into mexico.
Leon Ceniceros posted at 3:10 pm on Tue, Aug 14, 2012.
Entirely appropriate for the Mayors of Arizona's two largest "Sanctuary Cities" to go down to Mexico and beat the drum for trade. Afterall, these two Cities have the largest Illegal Alien populations who will be purchasing goods from their Nation of Birth.