. >> alan russell is the president and co-founder of tecma, an el paso-headquartered company that has provided workers and facilities in juarez to us manufacturers since 1986. >> we were nafta before there was nafta. we were able to move products across the border and have it transformed into a finished product and bring it back again without duty on the material only paying duty on the value added. so it was exactly what nafta turned out to be. >> russell says the end of the recession in the united states is bringing business back to the maquila zones, in spite of the violence in juarez. and tecma is hiring again. >> certainly by the end of this year i think we'll be back equivalent to where we were before the recession started in mexico. with the end of this recession, we now have 8 million square feet of empty manufacturing space right here in juarez ready to go - lights are on. we have 60,000 employees that were laid off during the recession that are ready to go back to work. so if you want your product manufactured turned quickly short lead time, you're going to chose juarez now