Henry Cuellar

Laredo, Aug 22 - “Six million jobs have been created just on the U.S. side [of the border] because of the trade that we have with Mexico.”

U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) speaks with AS/COA Director of Policy Jason Marczak about the local and national economic necessity for further facilitating cross-border trade. Representative Cuellar represents Laredo, Texas—the port of entry for approximately 40 percent of U.S.-Mexico trade, and the site of the August 16 COA Border Roundtable on U.S.-Mexico Competitiveness. With Mexico being one of the top-three trading partners of the United States, Congressman Cuellar highlights how “the border has an impact in Oklahoma, in Michigan, and in other places away from the border.”


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