While I support Brewer and hope to be out in the streets here tomorrow doing that face to face I support US federal financing of Mexican border infrastructure.

There are Americans living in Arizona and their need for transportation, electricity, fresh water and sewage treatment is just as real as anyone else's. Improving their infrastructure inevitably means cooperating with the neighboring Mexican state to the south.

Sharron Angle in Reno probably wants a good highway to Las Vegas and Henderson. The highway from Reno to Las Vegas would then connect with the one that Las Vegans use to get to Phoenix. The highway there goes south and connects with Tucson and Nogales.

There are proposals for massive photovoltaic solar electric generation east of San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora. The Mexican region is also very rich in geothermal resources. This will help the local economy in Sonora and there are plans for an exchange with Yuma. This increases the sizo of the market and lowers cost.

There are plans for using a lot of the electricity for massive desalination in Sonora and even larger in Baja California near Mexicali this will also ease water shortage in Southern California. With more water available the part of the Colorado Delta which revived with accidental receipt of Arizona agricultural wastewater can stay green. It will also help protect the Sacramento Delta from Southern California water demand.

Nogales is on two sides of the border yet the sewage of both sides is processed here in Nogales, Arizona and would rise without the two third
of the sewage processed coming from Mexico.

The majority of Mexican immigrants come from a region north and west of Mexico City called the Bajio. The fastest growing areas within Mexico*
are the secondary cities. More of the Mexican immigrants in an ideal world would have stayed where they are from or moved to the secondary cities in that country. The other thing which I see is having the economy improve in Nogales, Sonora and San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora would provide an attractive economic option for the "repatriating Mexicans" known around here as illegal aliens leaving Arizona.

*For a while Mexicos fastest growing areas were the border communities but there are limitations on infrastructure there limiting growth without major project financing for expansion.