Border Towns Hit Hard as Fewer Migrants Cross Jude Joffe-Block - Marketplace.org
go to original May 8, 2014

Pharmacist Maria Jaime Peña with the products she sells to migrants, including black water jugs that don't reflect in the moonlight. (Jude Joffe-Block)

Fewer migrants are trying to sneak across Arizona’s border these days. And that means some towns on the Mexican side that rely on the smuggling economy have been hit hard. Local businesses sprouted up to feed, house and sell supplies to migrants on their way up to the Arizona desert.

... But migration from Mexico has been on a downward trend for the last several years, as smuggling routes have changed.

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