1.  All four international bridges in Laredo were shut down during the afternoon, said Estela Rodriguez, managing editor of the Laredo Morning Times.

2.  But the flow of cash has prompted the agency to post roving teams of inspectors and money-sniffing dogs at international bridges to check traffic headed into Mexico.

3.  Buy gasoline from a guy who sells it by the jug from a car because the wait on the jammed international bridges is putting you perilously close to empty.

4.  Carriers hope the government sets up these inspection stations just north of U.S. border towns instead of at international bridges, which would further slow truck traffic.

5.  Cantu is one of the thousands of U.S. Customs Service inspectors who patrol the international bridges between the United States and Mexico in search of illegal drugs.

6.  Eagle Pass is building a new international bridge and wants the narrow highway to San Antonio widened.

7.  He was placed in an INS van and driven halfway across an international bridge and released back into Mexico, Zuniga said.

8.  He knows the joke that the sandbar is the newest international bridge into Mexico.

9.  In addition to Mexican Customs searches at international bridges, soldiers and federal police guard highway checkpoints where vehicles are searched for weapons and other contraband.

10.  Intense negotiations are under way with the contractor, Balfour Beatty Co., a huge international bridge construction company.