The U.S.-Mexico Border Region Faced a Range of Health Challenges Long Before the Current Immigration Surge

With intense immigration activity at the U.S.-Mexico border this year and attention focused on the plight of newly arriving migrants, a new KFF analysis finds communities along the border faced an array of socioeconomic challenges and weak health infrastructures well before this year’s surge.

Texas – which has the most counties along the border and is the only border state that has not expanded Medicaid under . . .