AJR 40 Summary

• Urges Members of Congress to recognize Mexican American families' needs to visit family members in Mexico and increase commerce between the nations by reducing border delays through a more open border

• Calls on Congress to speak out against and reject efforts to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border

• Notes that California shares 130 miles of the 1,954-mile U.S.-Mexico border, with 12 million (32 percent) of California's residents being of Mexican descent

• States that approximately 177,000 California jobs are related to commerce with Mexico, and border crossing delays cost California an estimated $3.2 billion and 25,000 jobs in 2008

• Estimates that a proposed wall would cost approximately $10.6 billion, take four years to build, and require 339 million cubic feet of concrete and 5 billion pounds of reinforced steel