Gov. Greg Abbott has made a deal with a third Mexican governor to halt his commercial vehicle checks at the border, now easing inspections at three ports of entry where they have bogged down border commerce.
and license plate reading technology to monitor vehicles entering Juárez, where drug cartel violence has plagued the city for years. She also said she ordered the move of the police headquarters from the state capital to Juárez.
In a news release, Abbott said the agreement with Coahuila is similar to deals with Chihuahua and Nuevo León. According to a statement from Riquelme Solís’ office, his state's police and immigration agents will continue to find migrants before they enter Coahuila and seize illegal drugs. Abbott said during the news conference earlier Thursday that he plans to meet with the governor of Tamaulipas on Friday.
During a Wednesday news conference in Laredo, Abbott celebrated the agreement with Nuevo León, saying, “Sometimes it just takes action like that to spur people sitting down and working things out like the way that they are beginning to work out,” Abbott said. “If you take a place like Nuevo Laredo, the Northeast Cartel pretty much controls everything,” he said. “Just installing a few new roadblocks won’t make much of a difference.”
“This is the way [drug cartels] put pressure for them to be able to continue … their illegal activities,” said Francisco Galván Garza, who works in the administration of Tamaulipas Gov. Francisco Cabeza de Vaca.
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