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The location where the Córdova crossing was situated (which used to be the only Texas-Mexico border crossing not at the Rio Grande) now lies on Mexican land, on the campus of the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. The crossing closed in 1967 when the new Bridge of the Americas crossing opened, where the new Rio Grande channel and new ...
The Boquillas Port of Entry is a port of entry into the United States from the town of Boquillas del Carmen, Coahuila, Mexico, into Big Bend National Park, West Texas. [2] Having opened in April 2013, the port of entry that is unstaffed by Customs and Border Protection agents, but at least one National Park Service employee is present while the ...
The Bridge of the Americas (BOTA) is a group of international bridges which cross the Rio Grande (Río Bravo) and Texas State Highway Loop 375, connecting the Mexico–United States border cities of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas, via the MX 45 (known as Avenida de las Américas in its Ciudad Juárez section) from the south and the I-110 from the north, crossing the El Paso BOTA ...
La Linda International Bridge (also known as the Gerstaker Bridge, Hallie Stillwell Memorial Bridge, Big Bend Crossing Bridge, Puente La Linda, and Heath Crossing [2] [1] is an international bridge which crosses the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) on the United States–Mexico border in the Big Bend region of Texas.
The Donna Texas Port of Entry is a border crossing between Mexico and the US, located at the Alliance International Bridge. [1] The bridge opened in 2010 to passenger vehicles only. While there are plans to open the bridge to commercial truck traffic, a date has not yet been set for that.
FBI investigators are searching for three women who went missing in February after traveling from Texas to Mexico. Four Americans were recently kidnapped by a drug cartel, two of whom were killed.
It was designed to divert traffic from the congested Hidalgo Texas Port of Entry. The presidential permit under which the bridge was constructed prohibited commercial traffic from using it until 2015, or when the Hidalgo Port of Entry averages more than 15,000 commercial entries per week. [ 2 ]
The law makes it a state crime to illegally cross the Texas-Mexico border, a shift from what has long been solely a federal violation. It was approved by lawmakers in November and signed by Texas ...