Mexico-USA: frontier problems in pandemic COVID-19

Abstract

The author of the article analyzes the determinants of cross-border cooperation between Mexico and the United States in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The federal and local governments' approaches of these countries are compared, as well as civil society organizations to address the socio-economic problems that have arisen on the US-Mexico border during the period 2020-2021. The study's separate issue is a comparative analysis of the migration policy across the Mexican border carried out by D. Trump and J. Biden's administrations in the context of a pandemic. This situation showed the unavailability and inefficiency of the measures used for cross-border interaction. In fact, in the cities on the Mexican border with a significant concentration of Mexican and Latin American migrants from neighboring countries was created a situation close to a humanitarian catastrophe. The article's author concludes that the United States discriminated against Latinos during the pandemic on the US-Mexican border, both in the matter of accusing them of spreading the virus and creating obstacles to their migration to American territory. © 2022. Iberoamerica (Russian Federation). All Rights Reserved.