Fabens Port of Entry
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| Fabens Port of Entry | |
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 Fabens, Texas Port of Entry, 1998 | |
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| Locaiton | |
| Country | United States |
| Location | 18051 Island Guadalupe, Fabens, Texas 79838 |
| Coordinates | 31°25′55″N 106°08′32″W / 31.431895°N 106.142102°W |
| Details | |
| Opened | 1938 |
| Statistics | |
| 2011 Cars | 301,463 |
| 2011 Trucks | 0 |
| Pedestrians | 58,747 |
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The Fabens Port of Entry was a port of entry at the Mexico–United States border, in the town of Fabens, Texas.[1] It closed on November 17, 2014, and traffic was diverted to the nearby Tornillo Port of Entry. This facility was located at the Fabens–Caseta International Bridge, after that two-lane bridge was built by the International Boundary and Water Commission in 1938.[2][3]
The port of Fabens was established by Executive Order 4869 on May 1, 1928,[4] ten years prior to the construction of the first bridge, so it is likely there was once a ferry operation at this location. The original port facility, built in 1938, was used as recently as the mid-1990s, when U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) moved its operations to temporary buildings a short distance north of the bridge.