* Mexico - US Border Agents begin inspecting US-bound trucks in
-- U.S. authorities began working Tuesday on Mexican soil for the first time to inspect trucks bound from Tijuana to the United States as part of a new enforcement program intended to reduce congestion and speed cargo across one of the nation's busiest border crossings... The joint inspections by U.S. and Mexican officials were launched after Mexican lawmakers overcame resistance and approved changes to the country's firearms law to permit foreign customs and immigration officials to be armed on the job... The impact was difficult to gauge as U.S. and Mexican officials marked the occasion by letting a shipment of strawberries head to San Diego... Trial runs last week cut waiting times in half, said Arazeli Penilla, compliance officer at Driscoll Strawberry Associates Inc... Inspections by U.S. officials initially will be limited to agricultural products deemed low risk for carrying pests or disease...
(Photo: A US border agents begin inspecting truck in Tijuana) -- Tijuana, Mexico — AP/abc News, by ELLIOT SPAGAT - Jan 12, 2016Labels: border controls, trucking industry news USA
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