Breaking: Abbott backs off inspections but vows to close border if migration spikes
Gov. Greg Abbott lifted the last of the stepped-up vehicle inspections on Friday that snarled traffic at the Texas-Mexico border and drew intense pushback from businesses leaders. But the Republican warned that he would not hesitate to bring back the inspections that created hours of traffic delays if the leaders of four Mexican states that border Texas don’t do their part to slow illegal immigration.
“Our economies are so interdependent that a policy like this makes us more inefficient and forces us to lose some of the benefits of cross border trade,” Perryman said. “So my message to Governor Abbott is we need to do everything we can to encourage the smooth flow of goods and services across the border rather than something else.”
Abbott has agreed to ease the inspections in return for security commitments from the governors of all four Mexican states that border Texas.
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