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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.