Texas’s economy took a more than $4 billion hit in April after Governor Greg Abbott’s order to ramp up on security at the border resulted in shipping delays and bridge blockades, according to a new analysis.
The more than week-long slowdown of trucks entering Texas from Mexico, carrying everything from avocados to auto parts, shaved $4.23 billion off Texas’s gross domestic output, factoring in multiplier effects, according to Perryman Group, a Texas-based economics research body.
