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It doesn't seem like a good bargaining chip, since I imagine Texans are going to be the Americans feeling most of the pain from this. Are we sure that is the reason?

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The I-35 corridor is one of the key routes for NAFTA based traffic. It's not just Texans that will feel this. To assume so is very short sighted.

I said Texans would be the Americans feeling most of the pain from this. Not that it wouldn't affect non-Texans. Why? Because Texas and California are, unsurprisingly, the states whose economies are most closely integrated with Mexico, and the states that engage in the largest amounts of trade with Mexico.

And most trucks destined for California from Mexico will just enter the US in California, so delays on the Texas border will not play as big a role in California as it does in Texas.

Please read my brief comment before calling me short sighted.

Even if the goods are ultimately destined for California they still will likely enter the US through Texas. It just doesn’t make sense for a truck coming from Laredo or Reynosa to snake it’s way accross northern Mexico.

What percent of California-bound Mexican trucks do you believe enter at one of the crossings affected by the governor's actions, versus at some other border crossing in California, Arizona, or Texas?

He will simply tell his voters that Biden was responsible, and his voters will believe him.

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