How Do You Account for the Differences Along the Border?

The U.S. embassy in Mexico city manages nine consulates throughout Mexico it's the largest number of consulates that we have anywhere in the world and five of them are right up along the border literally right on the border. Marcella: The dynamics change when you compare a place like Matamortas Brownsville which is a very small community to something like El Paso Ciudab Juarez or Laredo Nuevo Laredo. There are family relationships that go across those borders how fluid they are really depends on a number of factors, she says.