EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Border commuters endured unusually long waits to cross from Juarez, Mexico, into the United States on Thursday. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection website showed wait times of 200 minutes at Bridge of the Americas port of entry and 180 minutes at Paso del Norte Bridge for passenger vehicles […]
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — The processing of cargo will be temporarily suspended at the Bridge of the Americas in South El Paso to allow border officers to assist with the processing of migrants, particularly family units and unaccompanied children. CBP said in a news release that beginning Monday, CBP’s El Paso Office of […]
Cartels business model as they change, as they evolve, to our policies, they are also going to shift where they move people and how they move people across our borders. this will also be the first full week, the cargo area closed on el paso bridge of the americas. cbp said it needed to reassign staff to the field. 200 commercial trucks cross in a single day. so with that closed indefinitely, carriers must use other ports of entry, lead to longer wait times and there are concerns about the impacts it could have with trade. in the next ten minutes or so, over in mcallen, texas, governor abbott will be speaking at an event hosted by the southwest border sheriffs coalition, a lot to talk about in terms of the border there. we ll monitor and keep you