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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...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/renewed-migrant-surge-forces-closure-of-texas-border-bridge
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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
A former U.S. Border Patrol agent who also operated a trucking company in Laredo, Texas, has pleaded guilty to hiring undocumented immigrants as drivers.
Ricardo Gonzalez, 40, and his office manager, Alex Lopez, 33, both of Laredo, entered guilty pleas Monday to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by fraudulently obtaining immigration permits, according to a Monday news release from the Justice Department.
Gonzalez operated a company known as Gonmor Transportation while he was an active Border Patrol...
By Philip Pullella MARSEILLE, France, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Friday that migrants who risk drowning at sea “must be rescued” because doing so was “a duty of humanity”…
https://gcaptain.com/impeding-migrant-rescues-at-sea-is-gesture-of-hate/
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...
Mexican railroad operator Ferromex has temporarily suspended operations of 60 trains on northbound routes in the wake of reported injuries and deaths of migrants attempting to use the freight trains to travel to the U.S.
Ferromex officials said on Tuesday an influx of some 4,300 migrants across central Mexico in recent days has disrupted the company’s train operations, including on several key U.S.-Mexico trade routes.
“Given the notable increase in migrants concentrated in various regions of the...
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Cargo truck operations at an El Paso, Texas, port of entry have been temporarily suspended as West...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cbp-halts-commercial-truck-cargo-processing-at-texas-port-of-entry
Commercial operations at a gateway at the Port of Brownsville in South Texas were temporarily disrupted Tuesday as border agents were shifted to immigration duties.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection transferred some personnel to handle an influx of migrants arriving in the area, according to Armando Taboada, assistant director of field operations at the Laredo Field Office.
Taboada sent an email to the trade community around 7 a.m. Tuesday stating there “currently is a migrant situation...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/migrant-influx-slows-texas-border-port-commercial-operations
Four Nigerian stowaways travel 3,500 miles of ocean in tiny space above the rudder of a cargo ship, writes Tom Gillespie for News Sky news source.
Big fish like whales and sharksThe migrants, who were just metres away from “big fish like whales and sharks”, had thought the ship was only travelling to Europe.
Four Nigerian stowaways survived two weeks in the tiny space above the rudder of a cargo ship as it travelled 3,500 miles of ocean from their home country to Brazil.
The relief...
https://mfame.guru/4-nigerian-stowaways-cruise-3500-km-atop-a-cargo-ships-rudder/