CONSULATE GENERAL OF MEXICO IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA Mexican Consulates in Arizona  To serve the Mexican community.  To contribute to their empowerment.  To promote Mexico.

Las Vegas • Arizona's Hispanic population of Mexican origin (1.8 million); 27% of the state's population. • In Maricopa County there are 1.2 million Mexican origin persons: over 40% of total population.

Documentation  High security passports (2,000/mo.) and consular IDs (700/mo.)  Birth certificates to children born in the United States (260/mo.) Phoenix  Powers of attorney (80/mo.) Protection For example: . Domestic violence  Consular assistance to Mexicans in the United States . Building trust in law enforcement Yuma . Outreach  “Centro de Defensoría” . Legal clinics Tucson . Citizenship campaigns . Information on a possible return to Mexico

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Local partners: • Mexico-US trade: 1.4 billion USD per day; 1 million USD per minute. • US exports more to Mexico than to China and Japan combined. • 6 million US jobs depend on trade with Mexico. . Ari-Son Megaregion Council, MAG / Arizona-Mexico and Sonora Arizona Commissions.

. Elevate the voice of local government on both sides of the border and identify key areas to further best practices and special project initiatives that will increase dialogue at the local level and strategic cross-border economic development efforts within the region. • Mexico is Arizona's main trading partner. • In 2016, bilateral trade between MX and AZ amounted to approximately 16 . Joint trade and investment promotion. billion dollars. • 111,200 jobs in Arizona directly depend on the state´s trade relation with Mexico. MAG initiative to extend Arizona’s border zone (crossing card) from the current 75 miles to the entire state. Lucid Motors in Casa Grande, Arizona. “TODAY, INTERNATIONAL TRADE SUPPORTS MORE THAN ONE-IN-FIVE JOBS IN ARIZONA, WHICH PAY ROUGHLY 18 PERCENT HIGHER SALARIES” SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, JAN. 2017

• 7 in 10 overnight of international tourists in Arizona are Mexican.

• 65,000 Mexican citizens travel legally to Arizona every day for business or pleasure, spending 7.3 million dollars a day, that sustain 24, 000 direct jobs.

• Generating $17 billion dollars in revenue each year. • Approx. 570,000 businesses in the US are owned by Mexican immigrants. • In 2012, immigrants payed approx. $412 billion dollars in local and state taxes.

• There are approx. 90,000 Hispanic-owned businesses in Arizona • 80% are owned by Mexicans and Mexicans-Americans. • Employ over 60,000 persons. • 54% are owned by women.

• Mexican workers spend over 87% of their salary in the US economy, as entrepreneurs, consumers and tax payers.

According to the Pew Research Center: • 1 million left the US for Mexico. From 2009 – 2014 More Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico from the US than have migrated • 870,000 Mexican nationals left Mexico to come to the US. According to a poll by Cronkite News, ASU, Univision News and The Dallas Morning News in 14 U.S. and Mexican cities along the border: • 72% of border residents are opposed to the idea of building a • Residents of both sides of the border (77% in the U.S.A. and 88% in border wall. Mexico), favor enhanced mobility across the border.

• 79% of respondents that reside in the U.S. side said their city depends either somewhat or very much on their sister city across the border; such percentage is higher than the 69% registered in the Mexican side. July 2016

 46, 276 DACA applications were approved in Arizona (USCIS 2016).  92% of them were accounted by Mexicans. MEXICO VALUES ARIZONA / ARIZONA VALUES MEXICO

Visits by Senior Officials • Mexican Undersecretary for North America, Carlos Sada visited Phoenix in February 2017. • Phoenix, Greg Stanton has visited 18 times Mexico City, Monterrey and Federal • Mexican Ambassador to the US, Carlos Sada visited Phoenix in Guadalajara from 2012-2017, in trade and tourism promotion. Officials November 2016. • Rosario Robles, Secretary of Housing, 2016. • Tucson, Jonathan Rothschild; Nogales, John Doyle; Yuma, Douglas Mayors Nichols ; Surprise, Sharon Wolcott; Mesa, John Giles of Mesa, visited • Antonio Calzada, Secretary of Agriculture, 2016. Mexico City in 2015. • Enrique de la Madrid, Secretary of Tourism, 2016.

• Claudia Ruiz Massieu, Secretary of Foreign Affairs in February and June, 2016. • Hermosillo; Puerto Peñasco; Caborca; Cananea, 2016 - 2017. • Sonora • José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 2013 & 2014. • Ciudad Obregón; Nogales; Guaymas and San Luis Río Colorado 2016 - 2017. • Parliamentary: Delegations from Sonora and Arizona met in • Culiacán, Sergio Torres in 2015. Phoenix in April 2017. • Sinaloa • Mazatlán, Carlos Feltón in 2015. Legislators • Sen. Juan Carlos Romero Hicks visited Phoenix in 2017. • Culiacán, in 2016 - 2017. • Sen. John McCain visited Mexico City in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Jesus Valdés

• Sen. Jeff Flake visited Mexico City in 2015, 2016 and 2017. • 2 City of Phoenix offices in Mexico. • State Senator Bob Worsley visited Mexicali, Baja California in 2015. • 1 PROMÉXICO office in Phoenix housed in the Consulate • Governor of Sonora, Claudia Pavlovich visited Phoenix, General of Mexico. Scottsdale, Mesa in 2015-2016-2017. Governors • Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona visited Mexico City and Hermosillo in 2015 & 2017. COMMITTED TO A FUTURE OF MUTUAL RESPECT AND PROSPERITY