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Texas Rep. Urges Trump Admin To Pressure Mexico into Making Water Payments: 'At Risk Of Losing Our Citrus Industry'

Water being released at the International Amistad Dam (Credit: Oscar Villalba/Image via myrgv.com)

A Republican lawmaker from Texas has asked the Trump administration to put further pressure on Mexico to make water payments owed to the U.S., warning that a key industry could disappear otherwise.

Concretely, Rep. Monica De La Cruz sent a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claiming that the "most critical issue for our region continues to be the lack of water deliveries from the 1944 Water Treaty."

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