He didn’t say it but anyone who heard him say it knew what he was trying to say.
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer made sure everyone knew it when he held a news conference this week with the mayor of Tijuana.
Specifically the mayor said, “We are going to continue to tell our story, and we are going to continue to say how this relationship has served this region.”
But he was clearly sending a message to President Trump that despite what happens with the relationship between the presidents in Washington and Mexico City, the relationship between the leaders of San Diego and Tijuana will not change.
And that’s why he and Tijuana mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum are going to renew and expand an agreement between the two cites on opposite sides of the busiest border crossing in the world to help the economy for the whole region.
And the mayor’s right about San Diego being a city like no other city when it comes to its relationship with Mexico. And it goes way back to 1910 when people south of the border fled the danger and chaos of the Mexican revolution.
Over the many decades, Mexico has become part of San Diego’s culture, personality and economy.
As the mayor pointed out more than 110-thousand jobs in San Diego are the result of the cooperation and relationship between the two border cities.
While concerns over security at the border are legitimate, we should not lose sight of what we have in San Diego, a city made richer by the culture and people in Mexico.