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Anxiety over Trump stems flood of Mexican shoppers to El Paso

EL PASO, Texas — Stroll down South Een a Friday evening past shops named “House of Blouse” and “Best Choice Fashion” hawking three pairs of pants for $9.99 and you will find sidewalks teeming with shoppers as cumbia music blares from store speakers. Valerie Padilla and her boyfriend Diego Munoz, both 16, recently lugged bags brimming […]

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Why Mexico matters to Main Street: Column

A particularly contentious start to U.S.-Mexico relations in the new administration has left one of the world’s strongest bilateral partnerships in limbo. Canceled meetings, threats to implement, unilateral tariffs and attacks on NAFTA have broken with decades of collaboration and put our two countries at odds. If things continue along this route, the middle class

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