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| Texas Holds Up Truck Traffic to Change Mexico's Migration Politics |
| 2022-04-13 |
| [Breitbart] Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is choking truck traffic across the U.S.-Mexico border to get Mexico’s government to help block the migrant flood invited by President Joe Biden’s border chief, says Todd Bensman, a Texas-based expert at the Center for Immigration Studies. “If Texas wants to back those trucks up severely, they can do it as much as they want,” Bensman told Breitbart News. The point is to get governors and mayors in northern Mexico where the maquiladoras [oursourced U .S outsourcing factories] are, to start complaining to [Mexican President Andrés Manuel López] Obrador, and Obrador is then going to complain to the American ambassador. Then it’s going to go to the State Department, and then Biden is going to have to do something. Bensman posted a video of the resulting cross-border traffic jams on Friday afternoon: Abbot signed the safety directive on April 6, telling the Texas Department of Public Safety: As you have explained, the cartels that smuggle illicit contraband and people across our southern border do not care about the condition of the vehicles they send into Texas any more than they care who overdoses from the deadly fentanyl on board. In response to this threat, which is projected to grow in the coming months, I hereby direct the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to conduct enhanced safety inspections of vehicles as they cross international ports of entry into Texas. These inspections should begin immediately to help ensure that Texans are not endangered by unsafe vehicles and their unsafe drivers. Cross-border traffic is falling fast. Frieghtwaves.com reported Friday: At the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge, 2,516 commercial trucks crossed on Thursday, a 35% decline compared to the same day last week before Abbott’s measures were announced, according to CBP data. Texas’ decision to carefully check the cross-border trucks for drugs will quickly get the angry attention of powerful U.S. business groups, said Bensman. Those groups have outsourced their supply of critical food and manufacturing components to Mexican farms and factories, known as maquiladoras. Trucks can bypass the traffic jams on the Texas border, but only by taking a 1,250-mile detour through Mexico to reach the entry at Nogales, Arizona. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #3 Is it even possible to back I-35 up any more than it already is? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-04-13 14:37 |
| #2 I have noticed the increased hazard of 'recap' treads lying in traffic lanes. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-04-13 13:52 |
| #1 “If Texas wants to back those trucks up severely, they can do it as much as they want,” Anyone whose driven the interstate across state borders is familiar with "Trucks pull off here". |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-04-13 07:29 |