Texas Governor Threatened to Reinstate Truck Review: “They Will Wreak Havoc in Mexico”

After signing agreements with the governments of Mexico's northern border states, Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatened to restore aggressive immigration security measures if President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration doesn't do more to stop human trafficking.

The Republican president said Tuesday in an interview with Fox News, that such measures will cause havoc to Mexico and the political costs will be borne by its governors, including AMLO.

And last week, the Republican president ordered the extraordinary review of cargo trucks entering Texan territory, in order to contain the illegal entry of people, but it hindered the flow of trade and supply chains between the borders of both countries.

“What (President Andrés Manuel) López-Obrador needs to understand is that if Mexico and the states of Mexico continue to allow illegal immigration to continue to reach the state of Texas, I have the ability at any time to reactivate those inspections that will delay trucks trying to cross the border and cause ravages in Mexico”

A day earlier, López Obrador criticized Abbott and called his policy “despicable”, attributing it as an electoral interest, as he will seek re-election next November.

“It will continue to happen because elections are coming, instead of thinking, I say this respectfully, about how to solve the problem of inflation, they are already involved in politics, even in violation of international law,” the president said at his morning conference.

Texas and Mexico are important trading partners and, in 2020 alone, they exchanged goods and services valued at $177.8 billion, of which approximately $89 billion were exports from Mexico to the US and $88,7 billion were imports from the US, according to data from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) reported 221,303 encounters with migrants along the southern border in March, the highest number in decades as crossing attempts continue to rise.