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By: María Méndez, Angela Kocherga and Paul Flahive
For over a year Delfina Gracilazo has traveled across the Texas-Mexico border between Piedras Negras and Eagle Pass, TX to sell her blood. It’s a common way to make some extra money at the border. She stands outside one of Eagle Pass’s two Plasma donation facilities waiting with a group of other Mexican citizens who can sell it multiple times a month, earning about $40 per donation. The money didn’t used to make it back.
“We would come donate, stop by the stores and shop and then we would go back,” Garcilazo said in Spanish. “Now, it’s different. We come and go straight back.”
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Malls, retailers and street vendors cope with a bleak holiday season as pandemic travel restrictions keep shoppers from crossing the border.
EL PASO Twinkling holiday lights cast a warm glow and Christmas carols blare from speakers at the Outlet Shoppes of El Paso. But in these pandemic times, something is missing from the traditional holiday scene on the border: shoppers from Mexico.
“Yeah, it has affected us. Normally this time of year it’s a little more packed in the mall and everything,” said Lawnie Lazalde, a employee of Mr. C’s Toys, a local business with a kiosk in this open-air mall. This time of year, he and his coworker should be busy as Santa’s elves selling the hottest toys. “We got baby Yoda, like Mickey Mouse, Sonic the Hedgehog,” he said pointing to the shelves.