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Texas vehicle checkpoints slow trucks from Mexico

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59% : CBP already inspects commercial and passenger vehicles crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, including enforcing customs, immigration, and agricultural laws and regulations at commercial ports of entry.
58% : Ernesto Gaytán Jr., general manager of Laredo-based Super Transport International (STI), said the Texas DPS checkpoints added by Abbott are "duplicative inspections." "We have CBP and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration inspections at Laredo already, plus
52% : Border Patrol at mile marker 30
44% : "The Border Patrol checkpoint on mile marker 30 catches most of those illegals."
38% : U.S. Border Patrol also has checkpoints just north of both Laredo and Pharr whose primary functions are to enforce immigration laws and prevent illegal migrant entries into the country.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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