#JOHN BLOCKBLOCK GUARDIAN INSPECTION DRIVERS#
However, shortly after the policy was put into place, numerous Mexican truck drivers blockaded border bridges in response, as many decried the policy.Įven though 25% of the inspected vehicles were removed from the roads as a result of faulty brakes and other malfunctions, drivers and business groups alike argued that the policy has led to clogged traffic at entry ports and resulted in supply chain disruptions. The governor said that his new policy was “sending a message to both the president and Congress: Texas is tired of being the unloading dock for illegal immigrants crossing the border”. Last week, he ordered state authorities to conduct “enhanced safety inspections” of vehicles crossing into Texas from Mexico in what he portrayed as stepped-up efforts against human trafficking and contraband being smuggled across the US-Mexico border. When Abbott first ordered the inspections, he did not say lifting them was conditional on such arrangements with Mexico. On Friday, he joined Abbott and said they were ready to work together. The last cross-border agreement to resolve the dispute was signed with the governor of Tamaulipas, who earlier this week said the inspections were overzealous and created havoc. Others blocked one of the world’s busiest trade bridges in protest.Ībbott, who is up for reelection in November and has made the border his top issue, fully lifted the inspections. Some truckers reported waiting more than 30 hours to cross. “If we do see increased trafficking across the border we will strategically shut down certain bridges,” he warned. And so, all the goods that used to go from one country to the other at a very rapid pace, they are moving at that rapid pace as we speak right now,” Abbott announced during a news conference on Friday. “As we are speaking this moment, all these bridges are opened back up to normal trafficking. Abbott, a Republican, announced that he reached an agreement with officials from four neighboring Mexican states including Nuevo León, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Tamaulipas on improving border security and was thus lifting the controversial policy that were part of his stepped-up efforts against human and drug trafficking, he had said.
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