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Coronavirus cases spike in California county on Mexican border
Fox News ^ | May 21 2020 | Elliot Spagat, Gregory Bull | Associated Press

Posted on 05/22/2020 12:14:51 AM PDT by knighthawk

As much of California begins allowing businesses to reopen amid improved coronavirus conditions, a farming region bordering Mexico is experiencing a spike in hospitalizations that some believe is driven by American citizens who live in Mexico coming to the U.S. for care.

How quickly different parts of California reopen depends on the ability by country officials to control the virus. So the surge in the Imperial Valley region could hurt its perpetually struggling economy, which is heavily intertwined with the large industrial city of Mexicali, Mexico.

El Centro Regional Medical Center, the Imperial Valley's largest hospital, admitted 14 infected patients Monday night. That sent its coronavirus caseload soaring to 65 and prompted the hospital to temporarily stop accepting new COVID-19 patients.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: border; borderwall; california; coronavirus; mexico

1 posted on 05/22/2020 12:14:52 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Is it possible that “American citizens living in Mexico” who come to the United States for medical care could be anchor babies whose mothers birth them in the United States and then return to Mexico until it becomes convenient to use the United States? We really need to end the anchor baby situation.


2 posted on 05/22/2020 4:54:29 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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