Anonymous - 4-23-2004 at 12:32 AM
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20040422-1643-mexi...
By Arturo Salinas
April 22, 2004
TIJUANA, Mexico ? Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez on Thursday announced the creation of a new federal "northern border office" to oversee the
line separating the United States and Mexico.
Visiting this rough city of more than a million across from San Diego, Derbez said the office would be headed by Arturo Gonzalez, the former head of
Mexico's National Federation of Chambers of Commerce.
It will replace a presidential commission that had been charged with overseeing border affairs and was headed by Ernesto Ruffo, former governor of
Baja California State.
The foreign secretary also met with businesses leaders from Tijuana and the nearby border city of Mexicali, who complained about lengthy,
security-related delays at the San Ysidro Point of Entry into San Diego that they claimed have eased only slightly since the tense weeks following the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks....