Governor Greg Abbott has just made a historic agreement with the governor of the Mexican state Nuevo León to get the border moving again.
This comes after Abbott announced last week that he was ordering Texas DPS to conduct enhanced safety inspections of vehicles crossing the border in anticipation of increased human smuggling due to Title 42 expulsions being ended by the Biden administration.
These enhanced safety inspections has brought the border to a crawl. But this agreement with Nuevo León means Texas DPS can go back to random inspections which will get traffic moving again like before:
KVIA – Governor Abbott said he reached a ‘historic agreement’ with Nuevo León Governor Samuel Alejandro García Sepulveda so that bridge traffic can return to normal in Nuevo Leon.
Governor Abbott said that’s due to an agreement with Governor Garcia Sepulveda to increase border security on the Mexican side of the border.
Gov. Abbott says the Texas DPS will revert to normal random inspections at the border with Nuevo Leon only. Abbott said he would only agree to lift enhanced safety inspections at other ports of entry if Governors of other Mexican border states make similar agreements.
There are four Mexican states that border Texas and I hope the others follow suit with with Nuevo León and make agreements to get the border back to normal.
The White House has been very critical of Abbott over his move to increase inspections, but they are the ones ending Title 42 expulsions. Which honestly doesn’t make sense given Biden’s directive earlier today to extend the mask rule on airlines.
As the New York Post said today, “Is the COVID-19 pandemic over or not?”