(Source: NBC Dallas-Fort Worth, June 5, 2025)
The recent arrest of a Mexican railroad worker, accused of helping smuggle people across the border on trains in Eagle Pass, Texas, has raised questions about plans to allow more trains operated by Mexican crews to travel miles into South Texas. Some U.S. workers see the plan as a threat to American jobs and border security.
“One hundred percent. I think it’s opening a back door,” said Mark Wallace, national president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, which represents 51,000 American railroad workers.
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