Although once known primarily as a site for smuggling and illegal border crossings, El Paso has recently become--along with Ciudad Juarez, its "twin city" industrial counterpart across the border--one of the major beneficiaries of the development model of American management with Mexican manufacturing.
如今，隨著美墨邊境「美國管理、墨西哥製造」的雙子城發展模式，這個原本由墨西哥偷渡、走私頻繁的邊境城市，與對面墨國的華利士成了最大的受惠者。