Truck drivers from Mexico continued with their protests at the U.S. border, blockading bridges for a second day on April 12 after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to increase vehicle inspections caused long traffic snarls.
The government of Mexico announced its displeasure at the new rules, warning that around two-thirds of normal trade between the two sides was being held up, resulting in the loss of “significant revenue” for Mexican and American businesses. At one bridge connecting Reynosa, Mexico, with Pharr, Texas, truckers parked their vehicles on the Mexican side and held barbecues at the spot.
“Yesterday it took me 17 hours to cross into the United States and return,” Raymundo Galicia, a Mexican driver protesting at the Santa Teresa bridge connecting San Jeronimo, Chihuahua, to Santa Teresa, New Mexico, said in a Reuters report published on April 12. “I get paid the same whether it takes me an hour or ten hours to cross, so this is affecting us a lot.”
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