Bush officials team with Mexico to defend trucks

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | October 18, 2007 | Michael Howe

[Man50D]

Bush administration officials held a news conference with Mexico's transportation secretary yesterday to respond to criticism of a program allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, but critics in Congress who helped pass counter-legislation are unmoved.

"It is difficult to understand how a program that opens our roadways to virtually unregulated cross-border vehicle traffic can be safely regulated," said Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter's spokesman, Joe Kasper, in a WND interview.

Mexican Transportation Secretary Luis Tellez teamed with his counterpart U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez to call on Congress to reconsider its pending prohibition of the program and let the trucking demonstration program proceed.

Barry Piatt, spokesman for Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., in a conversation with WND prior to the press conference, characterized the media event as obscene and irrelevant.

By overwhelming margins, the Senate and the House adopted identical amendments into the Transportation/HUD Appropriations bill that would cut off federal funds for the truck project. The House passed the measure 411-3 while the Senate voted 75-23. The bill awaits consideration by a Joint Conference Committee.

Peters urged, "With the change of just a few words, Congress can show that we can trade with the world, keep our highways safe, and our companies competitive at the same time."

The secretary illustrated the point by inviting a Maryland state trooper to conduct a comprehensive safety inspection of two trucks participating in the cross-border demonstration, one a U.S. truck and the other the first Mexican truck to make a U.S. delivery. The trucks are virtually identical, Peters said, because both must meet the same strict U.S. safety standards.

[Man50D]

Peters urged, "With the change of just a few words, Congress can show that we can trade with the world, keep our highways safe, and our companies competitive at the same time."

We have been trading with the world since our country was founded without ceding our national sovereignty. There's no reason to cede it now.

[VictoryGal]

Bush will just continue to chip away at our borders. Will nothing get through to him that this is BAD BAD BAD for our country?

[Brilliant]

It was Congress that passed this law to begin with & Clinton who signed it.

[bcsco]

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Things are back to normal after two days of meetings. Lot's to report...

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[paguch]

“Bush will just continue to chip away at our borders. Will nothing get through to him that this is BAD BAD BAD for our country?”

There is also a story on WND about Mexican troops smuggling drugs with machine guns on the border. Has anyone ever considered that Bush is using Iraq as a diversion while he dissolves US soverignty? Law of the Sea Treaty coupled with absolute negligence or worse on the border?

[Joe Boucher]

great for his big business buddies
cheap labor.

[Wolfie]

Our Southern border is starting to make me nostalgic. It’s the one place there ISN’T a War On Terrorism.

[dforest]

I don’t know if it is a purposeful diversion, but the sovereignty of this nation seems to be on the line at the same time. Bush, geez, what can we say?

Hmmm?

[Guenevere]

bttt

[Flintlock]

I’m not sure what, but I feel that there is a LOT more going on than JUST a wide open border. It ain’t just cheap labor.
There is more to it.
Meehhhicco gets a lot; we get squat.
Why?

[SIDENET]

If only Bush would put this level of effort in actually trying to PROTECT the borders.

Maddening.

[dforest]

Things are weird and secretive. Mexico has always hated us.
I believe it all has to do with a done deal between the US, Mexico, and Canada. Bush has not yet told us that he and his Global buddies have sold us out.

When people grasp what is going on, the sh*t is going to hit the fan.

Have you noticed how many Pubbies are leaving Congress? That tells me something is up. They either do not want to be a party to it, or else, they know they will be of little consequence.

Trouble is on the way in all directions.

[Travis McGee]

[Diogenesis]

Pres. Bush does not care.
Neither does Gutierrez, U.S Commerce Secretary, who
was born in Havana, and is married to a Mexican,
who speaks Spanish at home.

With Pres. Bush,
America as our ancestors knew it .... is over.

[stuartcr]

I think Bush sr had an affair with a Mexican lady, and Barbara isn’t really GW’s mother...

[seemoAR]

I have wondered the same thing for quite a while now. Google the Trojan war. We have let our leaders pull the Trojan horse inside the walls. The sheep need to be distracted while the enemy troops disperse across this nation.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

‘swhy the WSJ likes it.

[BenLurkin]

CHP looking for missing drivers from I-5 truck accident
Video High
California authorities are trying to determine the whereabouts of at least 9 drivers involved in the deadly I-5 tunnel crash.

Ten people injured in the crash were taken to area hospitals, another 10 escaped the flames uninjured, three others, including a 6 year old were killed in the crash. That totals 23 people, but the CHP says 31 vehicles were involved in the crash which leaves at least 9 drivers unaccounted for at this time.

Warren Stanley of the California Highway Patrol, “We have to identify all the vehicles and determine who they belong to and based on registration we can move forward to identify those drivers”.

The CHP is hoping the missing drivers will come forward. They think those people might not have driver’s licenses or could be illegal immigrants.

http://www.eyeoutforyou.com/news/local/10581202.html

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>The secretary illustrated the point by inviting a Maryland state trooper to conduct a comprehensive safety inspection of two trucks participating in the cross-border demonstration, one a U.S. truck and the other the first Mexican truck to make a U.S. delivery. The trucks are virtually identical, Peters said, because both must meet the same strict U.S. safety standards.<<

Let’s see, where to begin? Inspecting one Mexican truck that was selected by the open borders crowd is supposed to convince us? By this “logic,” Iran can convince us that it is not developing nuclear weapons by inviting us to inspect a nuclear plant that they select.

But even if I believed that the trucks themselves were safe, and would continue to be safe forever, there is no way to get meaningful reports on driver records in Mexico, because driver records are either nonexistent or fiction.

Ask any Mexican how it works. They have a word for it: “La Mordida.” A Mexican cop (”Mordelon”) stops you and collects a fine. In cash. No report, no mark on your driving record.

[dakine]

“with Mexico’s transportation secretary”

Is that an euphemism for coyote?