ports of entry

Texas Gov. Greg Abott recently signed a bill aiming to speed up the inspection process for trucks carrying fresh produce across ports-of-entries along the Texas-Mexico border.  Texas House Bill 2155, which goes into effect September 1, reauthorizes a 2015 program allowing the Texas Department of...

A week after several international border bridges between the United States and Mexico had to be closed because of the migration crisis, U.S. officials announced migrant border arrests fell 28 percent in June. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced July 9 that about 104,000...

U.S. ports received $225 million in dedicated funding for fiscal 2020 from the Democrats' version of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) spending bill after receiving no such funding from what President Donald Trump's budget called for earlier this year. While that amount – set aside for...