Wednesday, 3 April 2019

The US-Mexico border: two sides that are united by fear of Trump’s closure

With about $82bn in trade crossing between El Paso and Juarez yearly, businesses on both sides would suffer if the border closes

If you do what Donald Trump has never done, and walk across the Paso del Norte international bridge that connects El Paso in Texas with Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, it is like entering a hall of mirrors. Everything is the same, yet not the same.

On either side of the bridge there are the same broad streets lined with shops, the same people milling around viewing wares. But the shop signs are different. On the American side of the bridge they are in Spanish; on the Mexican side, in English.

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