"The U.S.-Mexico border provides a number of examples of pairs of neighboring cities, one in the U.S. and the other in … Mexico. The advent of the North American Industrial Classification System provides a new opportunity to look at these cities … sector in city pairs that are located along the Texas-Mexico border: El Paso-Juarez, Laredo-Nuevo Laredo, Brownsville …

cycle in four Texas border Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and Mexico. We then measure the degree of economic …

"In the 1990s, while there was a large decline in property-related crime along the U.S.-Mexico border, violent crime … rates began to converge to the national average. At the same time, legal and illegal immigration from Mexico surged and …"In the 1990s, while there was a large decline in property-related crime along the U.S.-Mexico border, violent crime …