Delphi, for instance, prefers its suppliers to be within a 500 mile radius of its plant. Further limiting our prosperity at the border is unskilled New Mexican workers. Either New Mexicans didn't even apply for jobs, probably because they didn't think they had the necessary skills, or Texans had greater skills, Coleman said. Ross Perot predicted, we became the pilot program to expand the scope of CAIP for the first time to include the border workforce. The Border Authority has contracted with Do a Ana Branch Community College to manage and conduct the program with a curriculum specified by Santa Teresa area manufacturers.
Efforts appear to be helping matters.
The number of commercial crossings at Santa Teresa has returned to the high 1996-97 levels and our trade with Mexico in the second quarter of this year is 115 percent ahead of same period last year. Debbra O'Hara, a freelance journalist based in Las Cruces, writes frequently for the New Mexico Business Journal. All rights reserved. No material on this site may be reproduced for commercial purposes without the express written permission of the New Mexico Business Journal.