Gastelum said, "We have made a lot of progress over the years, but we know there is more work to do. San Diego was the busiest corridor for illegal immigration until the mid-1990s, when a surge in agents and fencing pushed traffic to Arizona. It has one of the most fortified stretches of border, with razor wire atop much of its fencing with Mexico. Nikia Clarke, executive director of World Trade Center San Diego, a public-private partnership that promotes trade, said regional leadership has never been more important in a climate of uncertainty. "What this country needs right now is people who know and understand our regional reality - the regional reality of trade, of immigration, of co-production," she said.

Source: ABC News February 06, 2017 23:26 UTC