Texas Border Bridges Race to Expand as Trade Grows With Mexico

Texas border bridges compete for lucrative U.S.-Mexico trade traffic, which can bolster the budgets of low-income border cities and counties

Elizabeth Findell/The Wall Street JournalPRESIDIO, Texas— In a parking lot above a sun-bleached desert border town, Victor Carrasco examined a used water tanker, picked up secondhand in Houston and bound for resale in Chihuahua.

Mr. Carrasco, from nearby Ojinaga, Mexico, is one of a growing number of transmigrantes—people who buy up old U.S. vehicles, machinery, electronics and household goods to resell in Mexico and Central America—who are making Presidio their southbound crossing point. The bridge connecting Ojinaga and Presidio, a West Texas town of 3,300 people, is quieter than those he has used to cross the border before, he said, but new lanes are under construction.

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