Mexican protesters have shut a US southern border crossing amid fears that untested American travellers will spread coronavirus.
Residents in Nogales, Sonora, south of the U.S. state of Arizona, have promised to block traffic into Mexico for a second day after closing a checkpoint for hours on Wednesday.
They wore face masks and held signs telling Americans to "stay at home".
Mexico has fewer than 500 confirmed Covid-19 cases and the US over 65,000.
The border is supposed to be closed to all except "essential" business, but protesters said there has been little enforcement and no testing by authorities.
The blockade was led by members of the group Sonorans for Health and Life, who called for medical testing to be done on anyone who crosses from the US into Mexico.
Jose Luis Hernandez, a group member, told the Arizona Republic: "There are no health screenings by the federal government to deal with this pandemic. That's why we're here in Nogales. We've taken this action to call on the Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to act now."
The Mexican president has been criticised for his response to the pandemic, as has US President Donald Trump.
Mr Hernandez said the Wednesday demonstrations were a "first warning" to Mr Lopez Obrador, popularly known by his initials, Amlo.
The group has called for enforcement of the crossing ban on all U.S. or Mexican citizens for tourism or medical reasons, including those who cross the border every day to attend school or work in the U.S.
Authorities must also conduct medical testing on Mexicans deported from the U.S., they said.
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FUCKING RACIST BASTARDS
Geez. I'd say this is fair play.
If Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Trump would claim:
1. "It was a hoax. One plane crashed near Honolulu and no one was harmed."
2. Two weeks later, "It was the greatest disaster in human history. I'm sending a fleet of 100 warships to destroy Tokyo."
3. Two weeks after that, "I've ordered 75 of those ships to turn back and occupy the Gulf of Mexico to prevent illegal aliens from rowing from Mexico to Florida."
4. A week after that, "I've ordered all ships back to American ports. The Obama Administration did not stockpile enough fuel for our ships to make it to Japan."
Progressives are demanding that the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives prioritize removing a little-noticed provision in the massive Senate-passed coronavirus stimulus bill that would allow employers to stop paying into Social Security for at least the rest of the year—potentially threatening the program's long-term financial health.
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Trump approval rating all time high. Numbers don’t lie!
You are not Mexican , Juan lol. You can even speak Spanish
@9:14 p.m.
You are full of shit, asshole.
Social Security is threatened, but it's not by COVID-19. And where you got that about employers not paying into SSN must have been deep within your diseased colon. Just STFU, you ignorant slut!
TRUMP was rambling yesterday about Tom Brady and then said that “in my opinion” the Coronavirus mortality rate was going down. His opinion???
Fuck Mexico and fuck the Third World morons
Who cares what the Mexicans think or want, as long as they stay south of the Border.
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