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A federal grand jury has indicted two men in connection with an alleged conspiracy to drive 26 migrants from stash houses in a South Texas town to Houston.

Mexican industry leaders are calling for an end to Texas border truck inspections given they are hindering components assembled in Juarez from reaching U.S. distribution centers.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — One of six men charged in Texas over 53 migrants who died last year in a sweltering tractor-trailer has pleaded guilty for his role in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt from Mexico, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

A man wanted in connection with a homicide in Central Texas was arrested after attempting to fake his way through the border into El Paso on Tuesday.

“You cannot cross here. It is illegal. This is a crime. You are committing a crime. You cannot cross anywhere except a legal port of entry."

Truck traffic at the Marcelino Serna port of entry in Tornillo shot up since the federal government stopped processing commercial cargo at El Paso’s Bridge of the Americas earlier this month.

Federal authorities are holding two men and a woman in connection with 10 separate migrant smuggling events in a 16-month span in Southern Arizona.

The budding slowdown comes after a high-level meeting between U.S. and Mexican officials late Friday in Juarez to discuss security measures in response to the new surge in Juarez-El Paso, Piedras Negras-Eagle Pass, Texas, and the Sonora-Arizona border, among others.

The El Paso City Council on Monday voted to purchase a vacant El Paso school for two purposes: To establish an animal services center and to temporarily house migrants released from federal custody.

Mexican officials pledged Friday to set up checkpoints to “dissuade” migrants from hopping freight trains to the U.S. border.