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The El Paso Paso del Norte (PDN) Port of Entry is a crossing of the United States–Mexico border, connecting the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas with the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. It is among the busiest border crossings between the two countries: more than 10 million people enter the U.S. from Mexico each year at this location.
El Paso Ysleta Border Inspection Station in 1962 (U.S. Customs Service) Traffic at the Ysleta crossing has grown significantly since the new bridge was built, due in part to extreme congestion at the other El Paso bridges, and also to the large number of maquiladora operations that have been established on the east side of Juarez.
The El Paso BOTA Port of Entry, located at the Bridge of the Americas (BOTA), connecting Mexican Federal Highway 45 to the south and Interstate 110 to the north, is El Paso's highest volume border crossing, carrying more than half the vehicles (trucks and passenger cars) entering El Paso, Texas from Mexico. [1]
The Donna Texas Port of Entry is a border crossing between Mexico and the US, located at the Alliance International Bridge. [1] The bridge opened in 2010 to passenger vehicles only. While there are plans to open the bridge to commercial truck traffic, a date has not yet been set for that.
Texas is already embroiled in a series of court cases related to Abbott's efforts to deter and punish illegal border crossings, collectively known as Operation Lone Star.
Texas continued putting up concertina wire and blocking border patrol agents after the ruling, which only dealt with the temporary injunction against border patrol agents cutting razor wire. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] The case is ongoing and is scheduled to be argued before the Fifth Circuit on February 7, 2024.
The White House said the United States will operate the crossings 24 hours a day for the next few days, and railroads, U.S. grain industry trade groups and Mexico's farm lobby welcomed the reopening.
Previously, the port of entry had been an informal border crossing for several decades, but was closed in May 2002. [4] It is the only unstaffed legal border crossing on the Mexico–United States border and one of five pedestrian-only border crossings in the United States.