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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Pooja Salhotra

Mexican cattle banned from Texas due to screwworm threat

Forty to fifty head of cattle down from 5,000 due to restrictions on cattle imports from Mexico at the Vaquero Trading stockyard in Sunland Park, New Mexico on January 8, 2025.
Forty to 50 heads of cattle, down from 5,000 due to restrictions on cattle imports from Mexico, reside at the Vaquero Trading stockyard in Sunland Park, New Mexico on Jan. 8, 2025. Vaquero Trading's offices are based in El Paso. (Credit: Justin Hamel for The Texas Tribune)

A single cow in Mexico and a pest the size of a housefly have held up pens full of Texas-bound cattle worth millions of dollars for the past six weeks.

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