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    Gridlock at Mexico border

    by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Apr 20, 2019 3 minutes

    HOUSTON - It's Holy Week, and on the U.S.-Mexico border that's an especially busy time for trade, tourism and shopping.

    April is also the height of Mexican produce season, and just south of the border in Texas, lines of idling tractor trailers stretched for miles waiting to enter the United States.

    This year, the traffic jams at the border crossings are especially bad, because the federal government has reassigned 750 staff from their usual duties at ports of entry and inland

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