{"id":7694,"date":"2022-04-20T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2022-04-20T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:44:17","slug":"abbotts-border-policy-cost-the-u-s-almost-9-billion-in-just-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7694","title":{"rendered":"Abbott&#8217;s border policy cost the U.S. almost $9 billion in just 10 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s short-lived policy of requiring state troopers to conduct secondary inspections of trucks crossing into Texas from Mexico cost the United States almost $9 billion in just 10 days,&nbsp;<em>Axios&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/texas-border-delays-abbott-inspection-costs-ba048e06-6b98-44d8-820c-979a716400dd.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;Tuesday.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The policy, which Abbott enacted on April 6, snarled truck traffic at the border and led to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/greg-abbott\/1012447\/mexican-truckers-block-key-us-border-crossings-in-protest-of-texas-governors\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">protest<\/a>&nbsp;by Mexican truckers that stopped trade at some major crossings. On April 15, Abbott&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/greg-abbott\/1012643\/texas-gov-greg-abbott-stops-secondary-inspections-at-border-after-striking\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ended<\/a>&nbsp;the double inspections, for which he&#8217;d received withering&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/greg-abbott\/1012604\/texas-gov-greg-abbott-reopens-some-border-crossings-after-bipartisan-backlash-5\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticism<\/a>&nbsp;from both sides of the border and the aisle, after striking deals with the governors of the four Mexican states that border Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Per&nbsp;<em>Axios<\/em>, Abbott implemented the policy &#8220;in response to the Biden administration&#8217;s announcement that it would lift Title 42,&#8221; a Trump-era public health policy that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/politics\/1012532\/bidens-title-42-revocation-borders-on-political-malpractice\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">denied migrants entry<\/a>&nbsp;into the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An analysis by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.perrymangroup.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perryman Group<\/a>&nbsp;showed that the U.S. lost an estimated $8.97 billion in GDP due to delays at the border, while Texas alone lost $4.23 billion.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/abbotts-border-policy-cost-u-214650405.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/abbotts-border-policy-cost-u-214650405.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s short-lived policy of requiring state troopers to conduct secondary inspections of trucks crossing into Texas from Mexico cost the United States almost $9 billion in just 10 days, Axios reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The policy, which Abbott enacted on April 6, snarled truck traffic at the border and led to a protest by Mexican truckers that stopped trade at some major crossings. On April 15, Abbott ended the double inspections, for which he&#8217;d received withering criticism from both sides of the border and the aisle, after striking deals with the governors of the four Mexican states that border Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Per Axios, Abbott implemented the policy &#8220;in response to the Biden administration&#8217;s announcement that it would lift Title 42,&#8221; a Trump-era public health policy that denied migrants entry into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis by the Perryman Group showed that the U.S. lost an estimated $8.97 billion in GDP due to delays at the border, while Texas alone lost $4.23 billion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[449,212,214,1326,25,21],"class_list":["post-7694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-border","tag-cost","tag-costs","tag-greg-abbott","tag-immigration","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7695,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions\/7695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}