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Health experts like to warn that "disease knows no borders." It was true for El Paso and Juárez at the U.S.-Mexico border, two cities a river's width apart, as COVID-19 ripped through families on both sides as if the border didn't exist, changing and ending lives regardless of nationality.
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New Mexico State University’s Center for Latin American and Border Studies held a virtual panel to discuss the effects of COVID-19 on the U.S.- Mexico Border.
One challenge involves trade.
Travis Leyva is the Director of the New Mexico Office of Border Health.
“One thing to note that has been very challenging over the last year is our two major port of entries. One in Santa Teresa, which is a very high commercial port of entry for Mexico and the U.S, and also Columbus, which we do also get a lot of commercial passing through,” said Leyva.