Restrictions Do Not Stop Border Crossings

NOGALES, SONORA, MX – Groceries, tortillas, family visit, hair cuts, and even enjoying mexican food like mariscos and tacos are some of the reasons that border crossings by us residents and citizens into Mexico continue.

For the common Mexicans, like those who do not work legally in US or are not diplomats, the border crossing has been closed for almost four weeks, but not for U.S. citizens who continuously cross the border into Mexico.

According to the health workers at the sanitary filters that are installed at the entrance of Mexico, up to 2,000 people cross daily into Mexico from US.

When the health workers ask the travelers where they come from; most say they are coming from places like Nogales, Tucson and Phoenix.

This monday the border crossing lines were approximately 400 meters long and the wait times ranged from 45 minutes to one hour in the case of Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry.

Difference

Border crossings are plagued with risks of Covid-19, infected workers were even registered by the Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

There are six cases in Arizona, three of them in agents assigned to Nogales and three more in officers commissioned in Tucson.

This same day the state of Arizona “wakes up’’ with 3,702 people infected with Coronavirus and death toll is 122.

Maricopa County, the most affected by infections has 2,020 people who tested positive for Covid-19, Pima has 668, Santa Cruz 10 and Cochise 16.

And of the 122 deaths, 52 happened in Maricopa County and 29 in Pima County.

Nogales, Sonora has one death by Covid-19 and one woman infected. At the state level, Sonora has confirmed 86 cases and 12 deaths.