The Mexican authorities is snubbing Texas and shifting a proposed border rail link to New Mexico, after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott backed up border crossings with state truck inspections in April
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican authorities is snubbing Texas and shifting a proposed border rail link to New Mexico after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott backed up border crossings with state inspections in April.
Mexican diplomats met Tuesday with U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and touted a rail line linking Mexican seaports on the Pacific with the San Jeronimo-Santa Teresa crossing in New Mexico, about 20 miles (36 kilometers) west of El Paso, Texas.
Mexico had thought-about a route by way of Texas, however in current days officers have stated they will now not depend on that state. Abbott had required all business vans from Mexico to bear additional inspections, tying up visitors and inflicting thousands and thousands in losses.
Roberto Velasco Álvarez, Mexico’s director for North American affairs, wrote in his Twitter account concerning the assembly in Washington.
“There is a regional vision and management of migration, legal pathways and more development options, as well as advances in infrastructure with New Mexico that will allow us to develop immediate alternatives to commercial traffic that currently passes through Texas,” Velasco Álvarez wrote.
Mexico’s Economy Secretary Tatiana Clouthier was extra forceful final week on the destiny of a proposed rail line linking the Pacific coast port of Mazatlan in Mexico’s Sinaloa state with the U.S. and Canada.
“There is a very important project that will hopefully be finished soon that will connect Sinaloa and, we used to say Texas, but I don’t think we’re going to use Texas anymore because we cannot put all our eggs in one basket and be held hostage to those who want to use trade as a political issue,” Clouthier informed a enterprise convention.
“So we are going to look for another connection point because we cannot go through again what we went through a few weeks ago,” she stated.
Some truckers reported ready greater than 30 hours to cross in the course of the state inspections. Others blocked one of many world’s busiest commerce bridges in protest.
Abbott, who’s up for reelection in November and has made the border his prime concern, absolutely lifted the inspections after reaching agreements with neighboring Mexican states that define new commitments to frame safety.
But these Mexican states have little authority or manpower to intercept medicine or migrant smuggling — the 2 points Abbott cited in implementing the inspections, although state officers discovered little of both — so the agreements have been seen as a manner of pressuring Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to behave.
López Obrador, has described Abbott’s actions as “vile.” But Abbott hasn’t backed down, and has said he is considering invoking defense powers by declaring that Texas is being “invaded.”
On Monday, López Obrador brushed it off, saying, “Now that there are elections, some politicians in the United States are making accusations.”
“But how are they going to talk about an invasion?” Lópz Obrador stated, referring to the truth that Texas — like a lot of the remainder of the U.S. Southwest — as soon as belonged to Mexico.