The pandemic closed bridges to nonessential traffic and shut down businesses, and shoppers on both sides of the border turned to online sales for their goods. The rebound has been slow.
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Emmanuel Rivas Valenzuela
Emmanuel Rivas Valenzuela is a multimedia journalism student at the University of Texas at El Paso and a social media intern for El Paso Matters.