• Union Pacific tells CNBC $200 million a day in freight moves through El Paso and Eagle Pass rail lines and represents 45% of cross-border Union Pacific business. • The U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced rail operations would be halted at El Paso and Eagle Pass, Texas, beginning Monday in light of the surge of migrants crossing the border. • Freight railroad operators including Union-Pacific and BNSF dispute government figures on migrants found on trains and warn there is not enough capacity at their other four gateways to reroute...

WASHINGTON — As the shutdown of the Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, rail gateways enters its third day, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has given no indication of when it will allow freight traffic to resume. Customs officials closed the gateways — the second and third busiest rail border crossings — at 8 a.m. on Monday, citing the need to divert personnel to assist the U.S. Border Patrol with taking migrants into custody. Union Pacific and BNSF Railway interchange nearly two dozen trains per day with Ferromex...

Like these illegal human swarms aren’t causing enough misery, now they’re shutting down international commerce because of them, too? The Border Patrol issued a statement Sunday evening that, as of 8 a.m. Monday morning they were suspending all rail traffic through the Eagle Pass and El Paso railway crossing bridges. Statement from CBP on Suspension of Rail Operations in Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas “CBP is continuing to surge all available resources to safely process migrants in response to increased levels of migrant encounters at the Southwest Border, fueled...

Two international railway crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border were closed on Monday. The temporary closures affect the bridges in El Paso, Texas and Eagle Pass, Texas. Customs and Border Patrol said the closures are due to a surge in migrant encounters along the southwest border, which it blames on "smugglers peddling disinformation to prey on vulnerable individuals." The closure of the two bridges will allow CBP to surge more personnel to areas where migrants are crossing into the country, the agency says. “We continue to adjust our operational plans to...

EL PASO, Texas — U.S. officials are halting freight train operations across the U.S.-Mexico border at two locations because of a surge in migrant traffic, the El Paso Times reports. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency will temporarily suspend the freight crossings at Eagle Pass and El Paso — the No. 2 and No. 3 international gateways in Texas — as of 8 a.m. local time on Monday, Dec. 18, the agency said. It is shifting staff to assist the U.S. Border Patrol with taking migrants into custody and...