42 cases in the U.S.<\/a>, all but one of which has been reported in Texas. <\/p>\n\u201cThe closure of the Southern ports of entry for the last year has been a tough but necessary action to control the spread of the NWS in Mexico,\u201d Rollins said. \u201cThanks to the work of the federal government as well as state, local, and industry partners, it is now safe to reopen the Douglas, Arizona, port in 30 days to resume the hundreds year old movement of cattle.\u201d <\/p>\n
According to the USDA, Sonora and Chihuahua have a strong animal health infrastructure program and are considered the lowest-risk Mexican states for the screwworm. The U.S. will be working with them on the reopening.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller thanked Rollins for responding to his call to reopen the U.S.-Mexico border to import cattle. Miller said he is still concerned about the New World screwworm, but the decision should have been made sooner. <\/p>\n
\u201cResuming cattle importation from Mexico is the right move for ranchers and American consumers,\u201d Miller said. \u201cThe prolonged closure has already taken a toll on producers, disrupted supply chains, and created uncertainty that could have lasting consequences for the cattle industry.\u201d <\/p>\n
In the same statement, Miller also criticized the USDA\u2019s response to the screwworm, saying it hasn\u2019t gone far enough. Miller said producers have paid the price as a result. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe USDA has spent more than a year reacting instead of getting ahead of the problem,\u201d Miller said. \u201cWe cannot afford to rely on half-measures when billions of dollars in livestock production are on the line.\u201d <\/p>\n
The USDA closed all southern ports of entry to livestock imports from Mexico in May 2025, and they have remained closed since then. This has prevented cattle from being legally imported into the U.S. from Mexico. <\/p>\n
Colleen DeGuzman contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK \u2014 The U.S. will resume importing a limited amount of cattle from Mexico, the U.S. Department of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2876,115357,2879,27,29,28,6588],"class_list":["post-385919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-department-of-agriculture","tag-screwworm","tag-sid-miller","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-well-c-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}