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Cargo truck wait times at the port of entry in Eagle Pass, Texas, have soared since federal...
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Amid a new increase in migrant crossings, federal officials announced the partial closure of...
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It has taken up to 16 hours for tractor-trailers operated by El Paso, Texas-based Tecma Group to...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/border-bottleneck-continues-creating-huge-delays-for-truckers
Cross-border truck drivers are facing hourslong wait times at two Texas ports of entry as an influx of migrants and renewed state-run truck inspections are disrupting trade flows between Mexico and the U.S.
The inspections overseen by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) resumed Wednesday at the Ysleta-Zaragoza International Bridge in El Paso and the Camino Real Bridge in Eagle Pass. DPS initiated similar inspections in El Paso last December.
The checkpoints launched by the Texas DPS are...
Texas is filling gaps in its U.S.-Mexico border security plan by repurposing shipping containers.
The shipping containers began being deployed in late October as barriers along portions of the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to officials.
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed state agencies … to begin placing large storage containers end to end at low-level water crossings to physically block any illegal immigrants from entry,” Renae Eze, Abbott’s spokeswoman, said in an email to...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/texas-filling-border-barrier-gaps-with-shipping-containers
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shut down a port of entry in South Texas in response to a large influx of migrants attempting to cross the Mexico border into the United States.
CBP closed the Del Rio port of entry late Friday and began diverting both commercial and passenger traffic 57 miles east to the Eagle Pass port of entry.
The closure was in response to a massive surge of migrants who had arrived at the Del Río-Ciudad Acuña International Bridge connecting Del Rio, Texas, with...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cbp-shuts-down-texas-port-of-entry
For the second straight month, international truck crossings dropped dramatically at ports across Texas.
The World Trade and Colombia Solidarity bridges in Laredo, Texas, saw 68,473 fewer commercial truck crossings from Mexico in May compared with May 2019, according to the city of Laredo.
The 33% decline in truck traffic at Port Laredo was the second consecutive month of double-digit declines, with international crossings falling 21% in April.
Laredo had a total of 142,144 truck crossings in...
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