World's busiest border falls quiet with millions of Mexicans barred from U.S.

Reuters ^ | March 31, 2020 | by Lizbeth Diaz, Jose Luis Gonzalez

[Oldeconomybuyer]

TIJUANA/CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - The world’s busiest land border has fallen quiet as restrictions to contain the coronavirus prevent millions of Mexicans from making daily trips north, including many who work in U.S. businesses.

At least 4 million Mexicans residing in cities along the 1,954-mile (3,144-km) border have been hit hard by the restrictions on non-essential travel. The measures effectively invalidate visas allowing short crossings into U.S. cities to visit family, get medical care or shop.

While such B1/B2 “border crossing cards” are officially recreational, Reuters spoke to nearly two dozen residents of Tijuana, Nogales and Ciudad Juarez who use their cards to reach jobs or to care for relatives on the U.S. side of the frontier.

All said they could no longer make the crossing, dealing another blow to businesses already suffering from shutdowns on the U.S. side of the border, including vital industries like agriculture.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do without money. I’m just waiting for a miracle,” said 28-year-old Rosario Cruz, a mother of two young children who works for a cleaning company that subcontracts with major retailers in California.

The coronavirus restrictions prohibit all non-essential travel across the border. However, the restrictions have not been widely imposed on U.S. citizens traveling to Mexico.

[Buckeye McFrog]

...so you’re saying there IS an upside

[beancounter13]

While such B1/B2 “border crossing cards” are officially recreational, Reuters spoke to nearly two dozen residents of Tijuana, Nogales and Ciudad Juarez who use their cards to reach jobs....

Reuters admitting to its aiding of criminal activity.

[Sacajaweau]

Maybe they should move to an area where they CAN work. Ths is just poor governing.

[FLT-bird]

Ah! So it seems we CAN close the border.....when we want to. So much for the globalist talking point that we couldn’t do it even if we wanted to. It turns out walls DO in fact work.

[dfwgator]

Winning!

[dljordan]

A day without a million Mexicans.

[Bobalu]

[EvilCapitalist]

I envisioned something more in gold, but that’ll do too.

[1Old Pro]

This is a good thing.

[deadrock]

Ah, that’s a shame.

[Svartalfiar]

While such B1/B2 “border crossing cards” are officially recreational, Reuters spoke to nearly two dozen residents of Tijuana, Nogales and Ciudad Juarez who use their cards to reach jobs or to care for relatives on the U.S. side of the frontier.

Yet another issue exposed by all this. A person crossing into these US on a short-term visitor visa, is not, as far as I know, eligible to work here! And caring for relatives? I doubt there's very many old people here with the only relative caretakers in Mexico. If anything, it's the illegal kids here, and the old folks still in Mexico.

[Savage Beast]

This could seriously decrease the Democrats’ election chances if it continues into November!

[Lurkinanloomin]

Millions more that are here illegally need to be repatriated.