Tourism draws millions of Americans southward annually. Even now, Mexico is bracing for a wave of youthful American spring-breakers in the thousands eager to bathe on the beaches of Mazatlán and Puerto Vallarta.
An estimated 1.5 million Americans reside in Mexico, inhabiting communities like San Carlos, Sonora, Lake Chapala, Jalisco and San Miguel, Guanajuato. Many of these expats periodically travel stateside. As they move, so does the virus.
Family and friends should also drive U.S. assistance. If ever there was an amalgam of necessity and fraternity, it is found across our shared 1,954-mile boundary and the relations that bind them together.
Mexico is our second largest trading partner and the motherland of 62% of our largest ethnic minority, the Latinx population of the United States. Mexico is also a staunch strategic ally on whom America depends to help solve many common problems.
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