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| USCPB Shuts Down Eagle Pass, El Paso Rail Crossings‐Again (Updated) |
| 2023-12-20 |
| [Railway Age] For the second time in four months, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has temporarily suspended operations at three U.S./Mexico international railway crossing bridges—two on Union Pacific and one on BNSF. A farmer friend opines: "Finally, the US has shut down Eagle Pass and the El Paso crossings in Texas, the main shipping points for corn and soybean trains to Mexico due to the influx of migrant crossings. Mexico is our largest corn customer and the trains are currently stuck in the US. I spoke to a shipper yesterday who billed a Union Pacific train to Mexico on Saturday. That train is still sitting on their tracks and they are not sure when it will move. It is fine for illegals to cross, but not corn allegedly because of illegals on the trains. Creating another supply chain disruption is probably the real reason the rail crossings were closed. If anyone but the US government doing it, they would call it sabotage." Related: Eagle Pass: 2023-12-10 Costa Rica Nabs Al-Shabaab Suspect at Border Eagle Pass: 2023-11-28 Video shows train in Mexico filled with migrants riding on top as it heads to US southern border Eagle Pass: 2023-11-27 Heroic moment Texas troopers and Border Patrol agents perform CPR on drowning victim and save drenched migrants during mass illegal crossing in Eagle Pass Related: El Paso: 2023-11-28 Video shows train in Mexico filled with migrants riding on top as it heads to US southern border El Paso: 2023-11-26 Trump serves Thanksgiving meal to Texas' Operation Lone Star Agents El Paso: 2023-10-26 At least 22 killed and SIXTY more injured in Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting after gunman armed with AR-15 opens fire at bowling alley hosting CHILDREN's league and then at a bar: Firearms expert and Army reservist Robert Card named person of interest |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 But avocado toast and shitty hipster furniture?! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-12-20 12:33 |
| #2 Holiday gifts are already in the stores, so the supply chain disruption is inconsequential. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2023-12-20 12:15 |
| #1 Only the railroad was shut down. Everything else is still open. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2023-12-20 12:10 |