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US-Mexico border gridlock to ease as Texas ending extra checks

Trucks wait in a queue to cross into the US from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April 14, 2022 [Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters]

Texas will stop carrying out extra inspections of trucks arriving at the United States’s southern border with Mexico, Governor Greg Abbott has said, after the US state reached an agreement with neighbouring Mexican states.

The agreement calls for the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas to increase security efforts focusing on illegal border crossings and drug smuggling, Abbott and Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Garcia Cabeza de Vaca said on Friday during a joint news conference.

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