Many of Mexico's border factories are flouting orders to suspend operations, worsening the spread of coronavirus
Detainees held by ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service are concerned that people who tested positive for the virus have been returned to their units too quickly.Dozens of other factories along the border continue to operate — in direct violation of federal orders.
State authorities have grown increasingly frustrated with those companies, which are selling their products to the United States even as Mexico’s public hospitals face aBaja California Gov. Jaime Bonilla warned last week that local doctors are “dropping like flies” and threatened to shut down a Smiths Medical Inc. factory making ventilator parts unless it figured out how to bypass free trade rules and supply local clinics.
For those plants along the border that have closed in recent weeks, the government’s instructions haven’t been the only factor. The sinking world economy has dramatically lowered demand for manufactured goods.
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