'Maquiladoras' qualify as such
They are known as maquiladoras.
Maquiladoras
They are more of an asset, as they allow the creation of jobs.
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the northern of the two major land masses and the cold water.
The northern region, taking advantage of tax incentives and closeness to the US-Mexico border.
Zones 1 and 3 open december 7th and zone 2 opens december 14th. Season ends december 16th in zone 1, and in zones 2 and 3 it ends on december 23rd. Zone 1 is the upper pennisula, zone 2 is northern lower pennisula and zone 3 is the southern lower pennisula.
Northern Nash High School's motto is 'Encouraging Students to become Life-long Learners'.
Most border cities such as Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros have maquiladoras. There are also some of them in northern cities a bit more south of the border, such as Mexicali, Chihuahua, Hermosillo or Monterrey.
Leona Aglukkaq is the Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency for Canada.
Greg Rickford is the Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario for Canada.
Many of them were small towns before maquiladoras arrived. Once NAFTA was put in place and started operating in 1994, many of these cities became boomtowns with sudden population and economic growth. However, most of them couldn't cope with such growth and have become ugly, industrial towns with low quality of life, high crime rates. The best example of such problems is the city of Juarez, bordering El Paso, Texas. See related links for some photos.