Stephania Corpi

Mexico has deployed 800 soldiers and anti-drone equipment at the U.S.-Mexico border to curb the use of commercial drones by cartels.

President Donald Trump has dismissed trade with Mexico as little more than “tamales and tomatoes.” But the economic ties between the two countries are far more significant. The data show Mexico’s role in U.S. trade and the longstanding relationship between both countries also affects Texas businesses, workers and consumers.

Según el Comando Norte de Estados Unidos, los drones fueron interceptados entre la noche del 25 y la madrugada del 26 de agosto por la Fuerza de Tareas Conjuntas de la Frontera Sur, utilizando el sistema láser multifuncional de alta potencia del Ejército. La operación tuvo lugar en el Valle del Río Grande, aunque inicialmente las autoridades no precisaron si los drones se encontraban sobre el espacio aéreo estadounidense o mexicano.

The drones were intercepted late Aug. 25 and early Aug. 26 by Joint Task Force-Southern Border using the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser system, according to U.S. Northern Command. The operation took place in the Rio Grande Valley, though officials did not initially say whether the drones were over U.S. or Mexican airspace.

Estados Unidos reanudará las importaciones limitadas de ganado mexicano el 24 de agosto, reabriendo una ruta comercial que había estado cerrada durante más de un año debido a la propagación hacia el norte de la mosca barrenadora del Nuevo Mundo. Esta medida se produce en un contexto de escasez de ganado que ha disparado los precios de la carne a máximos históricos.

The U.S. will resume limited imports of Mexican cattle on Aug. 24, reopening a trade route that had been closed for more than a year because of the northward spread of New World screwworm. The move comes as tight cattle supplies have pushed beef prices to record highs.

The Mexican president accepted President Donald Trump's invitation to Sunday's World Cup final as the two governments remain at odds over the deaths of Mexican nationals in U.S. immigration custody and broader immigration enforcement.

Mexico’s cattle industry is facing a convergence of drought, disease and disrupted trade that has cut northern Mexican ranchers off from the U.S. market that shaped them for more than a century.

The move comes after an ICE agent fatally shot 52-year-old Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during an enforcement operation in Houston on July 7.

The six individuals were discovered Sunday afternoon inside a shipping container at the Union Pacific Railyard near mile marker 13 of Interstate 35 after workers inspected one of the containers.