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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.
The upsurge has revealed a much larger phenomenon — an almost unbroken chain of migrants being shuffled from Colombia through the Darien Gap jungle into Panama on an industrial scale that could approach 500,000 this year.
Some Juarez maquiladoras have stopped hiring and are bracing for possible layoffs if a limited strike against Detroit automakers prolongs or expands, a border industry leader says.