Flea Market Raids in Rio Grande Valley Leave Women Without Birth Control and Abortion Care

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6. The pulgas are often used by the poorest here to get medication

They would openly sell antibiotics and all the other goodies you can get in Progreso, at about twice the price. It was just like going across the border, they just charged people extra knowing full well they couldn't cross. Never saw any controlled substances there, but those aren't "officially" for sale across the border either. I doubt the sheriff's primary target was abortion drugs, there was a very wide range of things you could buy from Mexico at the flea markets that aren't available over the counter here.

Slightly strange that Homeland Security has no qualms about people bringing in non-scheduled drugs from across the river but the local sheriffs come down on the flea markets with full force.