Mexican goods worth $1 billion stuck at US border amid migration checks

FILE PHOTO: Trucks wait near the Zaragoza-Ysleta border crossing bridge to cross into the U.S. after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) set a "temporary suspension" of cargo processing in the Cordova Bridge of the Americas to allow its officers at the site to assist Border Patrol in processing migrants arriving outside official crossings, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico September 18, 2023.REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo

CIUDAD JUAREZ (Reuters) - Trade across the U.S.-Mexican border has been slowed over the past week as U.S. authorities have shut down crossings and imposed extra security checks amid an increase in migration, sparking concern in Mexico.

About 8,000 trailers carrying an estimated $1 billion worth of goods have been stranded on the Mexican side over the past week, said Manuel Sotelo, president of the transport association of Ciudad Juarez, a major manufacturing hub across from El Paso, Texas.