Place for living with family in Juarez

[HookTheBrotherUp]

Originally Posted by malamute

Are you sure? For some reason I think many of the maquila manager types and top executives do live in El Paso.

I realize that Juarez is dangerous to some extent but I've read the military is safeguarding the commuter routes to the maquilas. I believe Juarez is very dangerous if you go over there to hit certain bars and nightclubs that aren't paying their extortion fees to the right cartel, and of course it's dangerous is you're involved in some way in crime and angered the wrong person. And of course there is the occassional stray bullet especially if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, but really how dangerous is it for an innocent foreigner? At least one who sticks to the main routes, stays out of bars and strip clubs, and doesn't go wandering around neighborhoods they don't know. I haven't heard of any non-Mexicans being targetted in Juarez.

Also considering that the newspapers reported that the mastermind of the recent massacre was from El Paso, El Paso isn't immune from the cartel stuff but we don't feel much risk here as long as we're not part of that.

That makes me feel better Malamute, thanks for the warm fuzzy! HA! 'Just kidding of course.

Those managers that do live in El Paso are more than likely US citizens, that's perfectly fine for them to commute, but the US won't dole out visas for the benefit of Mexico, they are meant to benefit US businesses.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by HookTheBrotherUp

That makes me feel better Malamute, thanks for the warm fuzzy! HA! 'Just kidding of course.

Those managers that do live in El Paso are more than likely US citizens, that's perfectly fine for them to commute, but the US won't dole out visas for the benefit of Mexico, they are meant to benefit US businesses.

Are you sure? El Paso has a whole lot of non-USA citizens living here. I don't think it's very difficult to cross back and forth but actually reside here. I doubt anyone even checks that. A lot of people have apartments here where they stay whenever they like even if technically they aren't citizens or residents here.

[Rich Cabeza]

Originally Posted by Cupcake77

Why would you encourage him to move to juarez?

Actually I was encouraging him to move to EP. I guess it didn't come out that way.

[HookTheBrotherUp]

Originally Posted by malamute

Are you sure? El Paso has a whole lot of non-USA citizens living here. I don't think it's very difficult to cross back and forth but actually reside here. I doubt anyone even checks that. A lot of people have apartments here where they stay whenever they like even if technically they aren't citizens or residents here.

My wife is a permanent resident (Green Card), and so I know something about the process; also, I am involved with many expats at my employer, and they are all here working on H1B visas. Some of my co-workers have gone from H1B, to Green Card, to US Citizen, the latest just this week.

If there are H1B visa holders who live in the US, but work in Juarez, then the company is doing some questionable work. The H1B program was designed to bring in technical professionals that are not readily available in the US. I mean a niche, or trade that is hard to fill with US citizens because there are not enough professionals with a college education to do the job.

I find it hard to believe that managing a factory in Juarez cannot be done by someone without even a high school diploma. There is also a quota on H1B Visas, so I am only deducing that the US will not give one out, and an H1B1 for the family, to live in the US, but work in Mexico. Mexico should be responsible for that.

Anyway, I don't mean to beat a dead horse, sorry for the multiple posts... I'll stop now.

[malamute]

Now you got me curious.

I found this:

Juarez violence's effect on maquilas - KVIA.com El Paso, Las Cruces - Weather, News, Sports -


More than 350 maquilas or factories are located in Juarez. The maquilas provide companies from all of the world manufacturing opportunities at a lower cost. They are Juarez's main source of legal employment.
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Besides taking some precautionary measures in recent years, Spoon says not too much has changed for him, "I still go to lunch and breakfast in some places."

He's the Executive Vice-President of TECMA--a manufacturing company based in El Paso that oversees 20 factories in northern and central Mexico, including 17 in Juarez.

"There aren't bullets flying everywhere," said Spoon who joins about 4,000 maquila executives and engineers who live in El Paso and drive to work in what's considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world.

But for the maquilas it is business as usual.

"They're very big, sophisticated corporate enterprises. They can afford very tight control of their properties,'' said UTEP Anthropology Professor, Josiah Heyman.

He has researched the maquila industry and says he's not surprised, ''The maquilas are enormously important to the well-being of the city and the state and also, I think that the people who own industrial parks are very influential."

TECMA'S President and CEO Alan Russell has been in the manufacturing business in Juarez for 25 years.

His clients range from companies that refurbish computers to making mannequins and shipping them all over the world.

Russell says maquilas in Mexico just haven't been targets of cartel violence--including kidnappings or extortion because:

"There's no ownership of those maquilas locally."

He added, "There is no cash inside those factories, they're production facilities, employees
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According to that source, the maquilas are going on as usual -- the violence isn't really a big problem but they take good precautions.

[malamute]

And this:

http://mfiintl.com/reports/MexicoHel...ationCosts.pdf

In this one it talks about the "binational metropolitan region" and the hundreds of maquila executives living in El Paso and non-US companies also.

I bet they have some kind of deal that lets anyone live here in El Paso so they can commute to executive jobs in Juarez and that explains some of the very nice houses we wonder who can afford here.