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Posted May 27, 2013, 5:20 pm Nela Lichtscheidl /Cronkite News Service

Report: Focus on border security overshadows economic benefits

Rep. Raul Grijalva, D- Tucson, knows there are benefits to be had from a U.S.-Mexico relationship, but fears the possibilities have been endangered by the hostility that has become part of the immigration debate. “The border lines went from a unique American landscape of people, history, and land itself, to a threat … to something to be feared,” he said. “Making that transition has affected the border tremendously.”... Read more»1