U.S. Mexico Border - Clay

Wait times at the ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border have soared as the Trump administration diverts officers to handle an influx of immigrants, leaving trucks backed up for hours and industry leaders warning of possible produce shortages and supply-chain interruptions.  This isn’t even just for regular, immigrant families, but for business leaders, bankers, and even Mexico’s foriegn minister.

According to an article in the Washington Post, the influx of immigrants and an excession (is that a word?) of immigrants is affecting the $1.7 billion in goods that cross the border every single day. Cargo trucks waited up to two hours to cross the bridge from Mexico into Brownsville, Tex., a city that had no delays at this time last year. On El Paso’s Bridge of the Americas, cars sat there for 160 minutes, which is up from 45 minutes a year ago. Southern California’s Otay Mesa cargo processing section took 270 minutes to push trucks through its crossing this week, up from 50 minutes last year.