María Teresa Vázquez Castillo is associate professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez where she teaches the Seminar on Urban Heritage, and courses on Planning Theory and Urban Theory. She has a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from Cornell University and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. She graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM). She is the author of Land Privatization in Mexico: Urbanization, Formation of Regions, and Globalization in Ejidos (Routledge). Her most recent publications are La ciudad antimigrante en los Estados Unidos en el siglo XXI: los casos de Costa Mesa y Maywood (CIDE, 2018), "Femicide in Ciudad Juárez: What Can Planners Do? in the book Transformative Planning: Radical Alternatives to Neoliberal Urbanism (Angotti, 2020), and Blanqueando la Avenida Juárez: Renovación y embellecimiento en Ciudad Juárez después del periodo de la violencia (UNAM, 2019). Her research interest are: history and theory of urban planning, social movements, citizen participation, and environmental planning. She is the representative of Planners Network in México.

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The United States grows and gets richer from immigrants from Latin America. it cannot as Teresa live without them, but does not know how to live with them.