ARIZONA.— The Reopening of the Mexico-U.S. Border scheduled for November, represents for the state of Arizona, nail economic dumping thousands of millions of Dollars and a flow of about 70 thousand people per day.
According to the organization Visit Tucson, each year, about 20 million Mexicans enter the United States, of which spread economic it hovers around $ 2,500 million.
The vast majority make crossings that last less than a day, that is, they do not spend the night in Arizona and the main reasons are usually shopping, taking a walk, or visiting family.
Border crossings have collapsed
In 2019, before pandemic of Covid, the United States Transportation Bureau documented by the ports of crossing frontier of Sonora–Arizona a Entrance average of 64 thousand 483 people per day.
In 2020 the crosses They collapsed; after the restrictions imposed on March 21, the documented daily average fell to almost half with 36,741 crosses disembark through the ports of Sonora–Arizona.
And for 2021, the statistics showed a slight improvement with an average of 41 thousand 788 crosses limits newspapers.
The vast majority of crosses limits They last less than a day and the main reasons are to go shopping and visit family.
Billions of dollars lost
According to the Ministry of Tourism of Arizona, in 2019, there were 6 million Travelers internationals who have spent more than one night in the state of Arizona, mainly Mexican and Canadian.
The expenses generated was 1,400 million Dollars, mainly by the Mexicans.
Out of these 6 millions visitors, 4 million came from Mexico, who spent more than one night in the state of Arizona.
By 2020, with the pandemic of Covid-19, the volume of documented visitors having spent at least one night in Arizona it was 1 million Mexicans and 257,000 Canadians.
The spread economic rose from $ 1.4 billion to $ 364 million.
Border towns in difficulty
At borders like Nogales, Arizona, the buyer Mexican, mainly the resident of Nogales, Sonora, represents between 75 and 90% of local business customers.
For months, commercial areas such as the street Morley encounter very little influx of buyers and with several of its businesses closed.
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