Tension And Anxiety In Border Cities After Trump Threatens Closure
NPRTension And Anxiety In Border Cities After Trump Threatens Closure Enlarge this image toggle caption Mallory Falk/KRWG Mallory Falk/KRWG President Trump has backed off his threats to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border. "One of the things that's really special about this region of the country is we often don't see ourselves as two different countries," says Catie McCorry-Andalis, the Dean of Students at UTEP. Jon Barela is CEO of the Borderplex Alliance, an economic development nonprofit serving Juárez, El Paso and Las Cruces, N.M. "Shutting the bridges, closing the ports, all of those, even threats of doing so would have an absolutely devastating impact and would immediately cost the American economy tens of millions of dollars," he says. "We're seeing reports of cargo trucks that are carrying goods that are very important to our manufacturing supply chain in the U.S. experiencing wait times of 12 hours and more," Barela says.
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