Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.
Juarez had become a failed city. The mayor of Juarez lived in El Paso. Not only did he not live in his own city, he didn't live in his own country. You had all these kids out of school who didn't want to work because they saw their mothers toiling in jobs for hardly any cash.