A playroom for children at the migrant shelter, where teachers sent by UNICEF used to come twice a week, in Ciudad Juárez.
Photographer: Mariceu Erthal/BloombergThousands Adrift at the Border Lose Their US Financial Lifeline
Stranded migrants and a foreign-aid freeze are squeezing Mexican cities that are also anticipating the arrival of deportees
The kindergarten teachers never came back to the playroom. The doctor stopped showing up at the medical center. Overnight, the resources Pastor Francisco González Palacios had once offered at his migrant shelter disappeared.
US President Donald Trump’s 90-day aid freeze — the same one that shuttered international vaccine efforts and malaria prevention programs — had made its way across the border with Mexico.