Executive Director of Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano's 'Arizona-Mexico Commission'
...A third objective, and an ambitious one, is to look at a long-range possibility of, "one day calling ourselves (Mexicans and Americans) simply 'North Americans,'" López said. --- Nogales (Arizona) International -- November 1, 2003

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Marco Antonio López was born in Nogales, Sonora, on April 7, 1978. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen March 25, 1994, in a ceremony that afforded him dual citizenship. --- Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson -- March 2, 2009

Visits since March 2, 2009---->

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Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson -- March 2, 2009  Bad News: Mexico-born dual citizen takes vital border slot     The biography of Marco Antonio López, who will be named chief of staff Friday for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, reads like that of a boy wonder. -- As a teen, López, who was raised in the border community of Nogales, Ariz., was following a television cameraman, learning about news...

Nogales (Arizona) International -- February 13, 2009    Napolitano names former mayor to CBP post     When reports began circulating last month that former Nogales Mayor Marco Antonio Lopez Jr. would go to Washington, D.C., to join Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s team, the local business community was abuzz....

Jon Dougherty

World Net Daily --- November 14, 2003 Tinhorn politicians and immigration There are two things in abundant supply along the U.S. Southwest border ­ tinhorn politicians [like Marco Lopez] and illegal immigrants. The two are mutually inclusive as one group could not survive without the other. Illegal immigrants need sympathetic (pathetic?) tinhorn politicians to continue invading U.S. turf with impunity. -- This fact is epitomized in chief tinhorn of the week, Mayor Ray Borane [of Douglas, Arizona]...

Nogales (Arizona) International  [Short-lived link] -- November 6, 2003 Fox 'assures Arizona' (says he'll put a good word in with Bush) Vicente Fox gave Arizona leaders assurances he will help out on borderland issues and vowed to convey messages to President Bush when he visits Washington next week. -- Fox made those comments during his visit to Phoenix Tuesday to confer with Gov. Janet Napolitano, according to Nogales Mayor Marco A. López Jr.....

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix -- November 4, 2003 Was Napolitano's Mexican point man targeted in fatal shooting? A weekend birthday party that turned into a murder scene has authorities trying to determine whether the mayor of Nogales was a target. -- "I want to believe it was a random shot," said Nogales, Ariz., Mayor Marco López Jr., who was at a birthday party at the restaurant for the daughter of Nogales, Ariz., Police Chief Paul Kissinger.

Nogales (Arizona) International  [Short-lived link] -- November 1, 2003 Mexican award-winning Nogales mayor returns from Mexico Mayor Marco A. López Jr. returned Thursday from Mexico City after a round of talks that he called fruitful and wide-ranging. --- Accompanying López to Mexico City was [Mexican award-winning] Douglas Mayor Ray Borane. -- López began the round of conferences Monday with Mexico's equivalent of Secretary of State, Luis Ernesto [Derbez]. The illegal immigration issue was the top topic of those talks.

Nogales (Arizona) International  [Short-lived link] -- November 1, 2003 Arizona prepares for President Fox visit to Phoenix Tuesday Treatment of Mexican immigrants will be the overriding issue next week when President Vicente Fox visits Arizona where he will be hosted by Gov. Janet Napolitano. -- Nogales Mayor Marco A. López Jr. will play a role in the visit, sitting in on border issue talks and escorting the visiting Mexican head of state with Napolitano. -- A third objective, and an ambitious one, is to look at a long-range possibility of, "one day calling ourselves (Mexicans and Americans) simply 'North Americans,'" López said.

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