The U.S. has temporarily suspended Mexican cattle imports after the discovery of a case of New World Screwworm in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
The screwworm case was identified at an inspection checkpoint point close to Mexico’s border with Guatemala. The shutdown of cattle imports across the U.S.-Mexico border affects the many cattle ranchers in Sonora, just south of Arizona, well over 1,000 miles from the reported case.
The president of the Sonoran ranchers’ union, Juan Ochoa Valenzuela, said in a video shared to social media that state and federal authorities are working on a solution.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, New World Screwworms are fly larvae that can burrow into the flesh of warm-blooded animals and can often be deadly. The United States eradicated the pest in 1966.
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We are seeing signs of ramped-up deportations here in Arizona, where an armored tank and dozens of federal agents arrived on a quiet Phoenix street to arrest a 61-year-old man recently.
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The U.S. Northern Command says 500 soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division will be based in Fort Huachuca — in southeastern Arizona — to support "the effort to take operational control of the southern border."
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Of those people, around 2,500 have been from countries other than Mexico, and Mexico has aided in repatriating some back to their country of origin.
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The ACLU and other rights groups filed suit against it on behalf of legal service providers at the border — including the Phoenix-based Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the flight was in international airspace and not unusual.