El Paso Times, July 7, 2008 AUSTIN - Increased border security measures as well as violence in Juarez and elsewhere are forcing many families that used to cross the U.S.-Mexico border for affordable medical care to rely on an already strained health care system in Texas. At a Capitol hearing on health care last week, Dr. Ben Raimer, UTMB senior vice president for health policy and legislative affairs, told lawmakers he worried how the state's health system would cope with many new patients if border residents stop crossing into Mexico.