Coronavirus Is About To Explode In Mexico, It's Time to Secure The Border

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"... The Central de Abasto, Mexico City’s main wholesale food market, has remained busy and crowded this week. Some merchants have even taken to posting on social media that the coronavirus doesn’t exist, that it’s a “trick of the government with other countries to get into debt.”

You can hardly blame them for thinking so. For weeks now President López Obrador has more or less done the same, denying the threat of the virus and at one point telling a crowd that the disease is “not going to do anything to us.”

Yet the raw numbers of supplies on hand suggest an impending humanitarian catastrophe. Mexico, with a population of 130 million, has only 356 ICU units, fewer than 50,000 hospital beds, fewer than 2,500 ICU beds, and just 5,523 ventilators. That’s for the entire country. (For context, New York City alone has about 6,000 ventilators and more than 2,000 ICU beds.)

Mexico’s unpreparedness, combined with woefully incomplete data about the extent of confirmed cases across the country, present real dangers to the United States, especially to communities along the southwest border.

Although the Trump administration imposed a partial closure of the border on March 17, shutting down all “nonessential” travel, the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is inherently porous, with a constant flow of licit and illicit goods going back and forth over the Rio Grande every day.

It’s true that travel restrictions have quieted once-bustling border crossings in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, and the streets of Laredo, Texas, where on average 10,000 people cross the pedestrian bridge daily to shop and attend school, are deserted. But cross-border traffic continues apace, from commercial truck drivers and farm workers on agricultural visas to powerful drug cartels trafficking narcotics. (Last week in Laredo, Texas, U.S. border officials seized a single shipment of meth worth $37 million.)

In addition, the illegal flow of migrants across the border hasn’t stopped altogether because of the pandemic. Last month, more than 30,000 people were apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including 3,600 single adults...

...Cross-border air travel also continues apace. Mexico is the top destination for American tourists, and as of this writing commercial flights to and from the United States and Mexico were still running."

When this takes off there you could see the entire population of that country decide two start heading north.

Militarize the southern border. Shut it all down.