Mexico.- More than a week after inspections of cargo trucks were implemented on the border with the United States, the governments of Chihuahua and Coahuila agreed with him texas government lifting reviews.
It was yesterday, Thursday, April 14, when the governors Maria Eugenia Campos Galvan Y Miguel Riquelme signed a collaboration commitment with the governor of the state of Texas, Greg Abbott.
In the agreement, the state leaders of Chihuahua and Coahuila, respectively, committed to combating illegal migrant and drug trafficking on the shared border with Texas.
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With this, the Abbott administration suspended inspections at border crossings with those states of the Mexican Republic, which, for more than a week, generated millionaire losses and traffic slowdown.
“After our meeting with the Government of Texas, the second review filter was eliminated at the border crossing with the United States. Today we signed the Memorandum of Understanding with @GregAbbott_, thank you for your willingness to work together,” wrote the governor of Chihuahua on his official Twitter account.
Last Wednesday, April 13 of this year, Greg Abbott and the governor of the state of Nuevo León, Samuel Garcia Sepulvedasigned the first memorandum of understanding for the lifting of inspections at the crossing between the two entities.
At the event’s press conference, the US governor expressed his willingness to reach agreements of this nature with the governments of Chihuahua, Tamaulipas and Coahuila.
“As of this moment, the exhaustive reviews that the Texas government was carrying out on all cargo vehicles are lifted, which will make binational trade more agile,” said the Coahuila state executive after reporting on the agreement reached with the Abbott’s government.
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Until now, the border crossing with Tamaulipas would remain to lift all the restrictions that, since last week, the Texas government implemented, after the government of the president Joe Biden suspend the expulsion of undocumented immigrants under the Title 42 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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