Truckers say stepped up inspections mean 35+ hour waits at one Texas-Mexico border bridge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "Border security is an element of this region, but so is trade that keeps millions of Texans employed," Galeazzi wrote.
50% : Abbott has also promised to help build a border wall and ordered state officials to provide buses to carry migrants from the border to Washington, D.C.
47% : A U.S. Customs and Border Protection official confirmed that commercial traffic was temporarily halted in both directions on the Pharr international bridge because of the protest on the Reynosa side.
23% : Abbott has pushed heavily for massive expenditures to beef up border security after saying the Biden administration has failed to do so.

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