Border manufacturers are teaming up in an unusual race to provide life-saving medical supplies and devices during the COVID-19 crisis. The timing couldn’t be more critical. “Our message is simple,” said Cecilia Levine, founder of ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – Pharmacies in Juárez are facing a run by El Pasoans and other U.S. residents looking to buy hydroxychloroquine, one of the drugs the president has touted as a possible treatment for COVID-19. ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ — Health authorities in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez pride themselves on working together as a region on a range of public health issues that span the border. But the response to the ...
The Trejo family has been careful about handwashing and using hand-sanitizer to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but when it came time to part ways near the Paso del Norte international bridge, they hugged ...
The number of people crossing from Ciudad Juárez into El Paso declined sharply in the past year as wait times increased at international bridges, according to Customs and Border Protection data. The number of people ...
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In the winter of 1917, fear of a typhus outbreak prompted a quarantine policy along the United States-Mexico border. For over 40 years, this United States border quarantine mandated the forcible bathing of Mexican border-crossers ...