Hundreds, sometimes thousands of people from Juarez head across the international boundary daily to shop, run errands, and meet friends in El Paso. Residents react to the shootings:
The shaded bus stop near the Paso del Norte bridge offers daily transport across the border to various sites in El Paso, including downtown, the airport, the bus station — and the Cielo Vista Mall.
“We … reaffirm our conviction that social problems should not be confronted with the use of force or inciting hate,” Lopez Obrador said Sunday.Some noted with irony that El Paso is generally viewed as a low-crime safe haven compared with its Mexican sister city, Ciudad Juarez, which has long been plagued by cartel wars — and became infamous for mostly unsolved murders of women and images of gang victims’ remains hung from bridges.
Hundreds, sometimes thousands of people from Juarez head across the international boundary daily to shop, run errands, and meet friends in El Paso, a tradition shared in border towns from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. The movement of people also flows the other way.Border towns like El Paso-Juarez, home to some 2 million people, are sometimes best viewed as single metropolitan areas, sharing common populations, cultures and language — mostly Spanish.
Many seemed inclined to blame President Trump for inflaming passions against immigrants and Mexicans in particular. Trump is remembered negatively in Mexico for kicking off his presidential bid denouncing Mexican immigrants as criminals and “rapists,” adding that some “good people” were among them. His repeated threats to shut the border have enhanced his image here as a serial basher of Mexico and of Mexicans.
But family members here identified one victim as a Juarez resident, Elsa Mendoza Marques, 57, an elementary school teacher and mother of two adult children. She had crossed the border on Saturday and entered the Walmart while family members remained outside the store, according to social media and press accounts .
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