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The United States Border Patrol operates 71 traffic checkpoints, including 33 permanent traffic checkpoints, near the Mexico–United States border. [1] [2] The stated primary purpose of these inspection stations is to deter illegal immigration and smuggling activities.
Fabens was a small border crossing ten miles east of El Paso, Texas. It opened in 1938, and closed on November 17, 2014, when the new Tornillo Port of Entry opened nearby. The Fabens-Caseta International Bridge was too small to handle commercial traffic, and local business interests pressed for an alternate route from the busy commercial ...
The border is paralleled by U.S. Border Patrol interior checkpoints on major roads generally between 40 and 121 km (25 and 75 mi) from the U.S. side of the border, and garitas generally within 50 km (31 mi) of the border on the Mexican side. [77] [78] [79] Drug trafficking tunnel under the U.S.–Mexico border used by the Sinaloa Cartel
Texas' leaders have declared that the state is experiencing an "invasion" of people at the border, but a U.S.-Mexico agency says the state is the one doing the invading.
Guitarist Ted Nugent plays the Star Spangled Banner at the #TakeOurBorderBackConvoy rally in Dripping Springs. A crowd of over a thousand turned out to express concerns about border security. pic ...
A young Cuban couple at the San Ysidro border checkpoint had an appointment at 1 p.m. — just an hour after the app scrapped all appointments as Trump took power. Luis Miguel Alvarez, 22, and ...
Johor Bahru Checkpoint and Woodlands Checkpoint on the Malaysia–Singapore border handles the busiest international land border crossing in the world, with 350,000 travellers daily. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A border checkpoint is a location on an international border where travelers or goods are inspected and allowed (or denied) passage through.
Mexican officials pledged Friday to set up checkpoints to “dissuade” migrants from hopping freight trains to the U.S. border. The announcement came Friday at a meeting that Mexican security ...