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Mexican president blames Texas-run border inspections for delays

Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blamed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border safety inspections for jamming up international trade, leaving at least 19,000 trucks loaded with $1.9 billion of goods stuck waiting in Mexico.

Lopez Obrador has sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. government over Texas-run commercial truck safety inspections that have caused major disruptions to cross-border trade since Sept. 20.

“There is a very hostile attitude on the part of the governor of Texas. … [T]hey...

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White House: Cross-border truck delays hammering supply chains

The White House is pressuring Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to lift added inspections of commercial trucks entering from Mexico as supply chain disruption at the border threatens to spin out of control.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki warned in a statement Wednesday that cross-border delays caused by the inspections — which Abbott said last week he was putting in place at major crossings to curb illegal immigration — “are causing significant disruptions to the food and automobile supply chains,...

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Borderlands: Vaccine mandate has varied impacts on Mexico cross-border trucking

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Vaccine mandate has varied impacts on Mexico cross-border trucking; Texas toll road truck traffic rises 57% year-over-year; Chinese ATV maker to build $152M plant in Mexico; and drug seizures surge at Texas-Mexico border.

Vaccine mandate has varied impacts on Mexico cross-border trucking

New regulations banning unvaccinated truckers from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border...

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CBP shuts down Texas port of entry, reroutes commercial traffic

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...

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FreightWaves Classics: Interstate 2 is a new addition to the system

Signs for Interstate 2 and US Highway 83. (Photo: Federal Highway Administration)

Overview

There are 70 primary interstate highways in the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, or IHS). The IHS is a network of the major freeways in the United States. The oldest parts of the interstate system date back to the 1950s, although the planning for the system began prior to World War II. To learn more about their history, read previous FreightWaves Classics articles here, here and here.

In this article...

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DEA makes record $45M meth bust in Dallas area

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Dallas field office recently announced the biggest seizure of methamphetamine in the branch’s history.

The meth — 1,930 pounds valued at $45 million — was found during a traffic stop involving a refrigerated tractor-trailer off Interstate 35 in Denton County, Texas, the DEA said Wednesday.

The 663 packages of drugs had been stashed in a secret compartment underneath the truck. Officials said the truck was empty.

The Drug Enforcement Administration found...

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$8M worth of narcotics intercepted in shipments from Mexico

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers recently seized cocaine, fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine worth more than $8.4 million in separate incidents in Texas and California, authorities said.

The first case occurred Oct. 9 at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo, Texas, where officers found 30 packages containing 74 pounds of alleged cocaine hidden in a tractor-trailer from Mexico. The cocaine had an estimated street value of $786,450.

The second seizure also occurred on Oct. 9, when...

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Amazon plans new facility in El Paso, brings 700 jobs

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to open its first fulfillment center in El Paso, Texas. 

The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create more than 700 new, full-time jobs.

“It’s a done deal, Amazon is coming to El Paso, we’re lucky to have them,” said Jon Barela, chief executive of the Borderplex Alliance during a Wednesday, July 22 press conference. 

In the new 625,000 square-foot fulfillment center, Amazon employees will work alongside Amazon robotics to pick, pack...

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Individual captured after severing foot trying to board moving train in Texas

A photograph of the wheels of a railcar.

The U.S. Border Patrol says it has apprehended an individual whose foot was partially severed while the person attempted to board a moving train between Freer and San Diego, Texas.

Agents couldn’t reach the individual until the train stopped in San Diego. Once there, agents rendered aid to the person, whom the Border Patrol described only as a Mexican citizen in the U.S. illegally, according to a Thursday release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The agents took the person to...

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