* Last year, 27.9 million people crossed legally to Arizona from Mexico, 12.8 million of them through ports of entry in Nogales, the state's largest border city.
* Mexican visitor spending in Arizona was almost $2.7 billion in 2007-2008, a figure more than double the estimated spending in 2001.
* Nearly 23,400 wage and salary jobs in Arizona are directly attributable to Mexican visitor spending.
* Mexico is the United States' second largest trading partner after Canada, with trade flows of around $1 billion a day.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2118348220100523I had no idea that 80,000 people a day legally enter Arizona from Mexico. I've only visited Arizona once, back in the 1980's and didn't realize the extent of the cross border traffic or how much Mexican tourists spend in the state.
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