Carolina Pulice and Ted Hesson

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Commercial truck traffic between Mexico’s Chihuahua state and Texas will resume normality immediately following an agreement by both sides on border security. Texas Governor Greg Abbott stated on Thursday that this was the case.

Abbott and Maria Eugenia Campos Galvan spoke together to discuss a security plan that Chihuahua’s state has developed to protect the border.

Abbott explained that Texas and Chihuahua had now reached an agreement to not only secure the border but also to allow commercial vehicles through the ports.

Abbott is a Republican who will be running for reelection in November. He ordered that the Department of Public Safety conduct an “enhanced inspection” of all vehicles crossing from Mexico to Texas last week in order to detect smuggling of persons and contraband.

Abbott explained that inspections were part a larger effort to prevent illegal immigration. This included buses transporting migrants to Washington. It also aimed at countering the Democratic President Joe Biden’s “open borders” policy.

Mexican truck drivers protested delays at the U.S. Border earlier this week. Drivers claimed they caused wait times that exceeded half a day.

Abbott stated Wednesday that his state would stop enhanced inspections of Nuevo Leon from Mexico’s state after concluding a separate border agreement with the governor.

Abbott stated that the stepped up inspections of other areas along Mexico’s border will be continued until an agreement has been made with these states.