Mexico Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Texas Governor Greg Abbott pressured Mexico’s governors to lift border inspections due to long lines, Milenio newspaper reported.
Ebrard commented during a visit to Nuevo Leon state during the weekend, where he accused Abbott of “extorting” the governors of Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Chihuahua to end border inspections on cargo entering the U.S. from Mexico. The governors have spent the past weeks negotiating individually with Abbott over the inspections, Milenio reported.
“It is an extortion,” Ebrard said. “I close the border and you have to sign what I say, that is not an agreement. An agreement is that you and I agree on something, and the problem of migration is not from Mexico, it’s decisions that the United States must make,” Ebrard said.
