Yesterday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott relented, agreeing to ease the additional safety inspections of trucks at the busiest border entry point in exchange for promises of more border security by Mexican officials along one 8-mile stretch of the border.
PHARR, TX - APRIL 13: Police officers block the entrance to the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge on April 13, 2022 in Pharr, Texas. Mexican truckers have suspended traffic since at least April 9, 2022 at the bridge in protest of Texas Governor Abbotts new inspection mandate. Texas Gov.
Since he implemented the more thorough inspections a week ago, truck traffic at many of the Texas ports of entry have stalled. In Laredo, the nation’s biggest trucking port, the normal 30 minutes or less to get across ballooned to three hours or longer, delaying shipments of everything from produce to electronics and driving up costs for trucking companies.
“Since Nuevo Leon has increased its security on its side of the border, the Texas Department of Public Safety can return to its previous practice of random searches of vehicles crossing the the bridge from Neuvo Leon,” Abbott said with the Nuevo Leon Gov. Samuel Alejandro García Sepulveda at his side.Beto O’Rourke, trucking companies say Abbott ‘wreaked havoc’ at border with latest crackdown
At 3 p.m. it was taking those trucks six hours to get across the bridge. Within an hour of Abbott signing his agreement with García, the wait dropped to five minutes.
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