Posted on 10/18/2007 3:55:30 AM PDT by 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.
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“It was Congress that passed this law to begin with & Clinton who signed it.”
Is this a law? I thought NAFTA was a trade agreement. Bill Clinton may have signed it but George Bush is sticking it up our butts with a grin along with the invasion of his Amigos from the south.
Very interesting link. I had not thought of an illegal alien truck driver but it makes sense. If an illegal alien was at fault, our government will hide the facts.
“Has anyone ever considered that Bush is using Iraq as a diversion while he dissolves US soverignty?”
I think this is a very real possibility. Now for the Bushbot attacks.
Mary peters, another jorge appointee with years and years of experience. Mary where and who are the missing drivers on I5. Doubt if you know where the I5 wreck was are where I5 is for that matter.
He did have mexican national as a maid for years, and still does. Except she has her papers now.
Just damn!
It’s a trade agreement that has been enacted into law. But you are correct that Clinton refused to enforce his own agreement, and Bush has. Irrespective, you can’t trust any of them.
You see, this is the real reason truthers think WTC was a conspiracy; Who would leave the borders open after 9-11, why are 40,000 outstanding express visas to terrorist countries citizens outstanding while they say it’s Immigrations duty to go out and find these characters who’ve overstayed? Is it not enough to see all the terrorist activity in Arizona, Virginia, upstate NY, the northwest, in NYC itself (including Al Farooq mosque, that should have been shut down after 93 bombing, oh, and they consult with the new Kabran Islamic Academy in Brooklyn), the south and Florida (as well as universities)?
They can’t believe our president is serious. They’re driving drunk and killing folks in cars already, molesting, bringing previously eradicated diseases back, executing (in the case of the NJ college students, Rev. Al didn’t ask for a hearing on that though), doc fraud, tax fraud, costs re: prisons, social services, hospital closings, law enforcement, taxpayer dollars, in-state tuition, housing... etc.
We hear they do pay taxes and work, do they have the three thousand a pop for maternity fees yearly for each child? Mexico gets a huge chunk of their GDP from money being sent back (hence Western Union amnesty support, which costs less for them to send than me to send money down south). And how about our children and the jobs they could be doing? I started working at 12, the young kids here can’t even bag groceries at the store... no habla espanol. Can we ‘really’ trust Mexico to tell us if they’re sending criminals across and they’re working to stop the loads of drugs coming across (another huge issue, along with gangs)?
They haven’t done it, won’t do it. Yet they have no qualms with jailing and sending back those who cross their southern border... unless they’re moving on to the US of course. How many checks have we received from Mexico for all these costs? What could they possibly send us for this?
It’s not as bad as the treasury clowns getting ready to sell more of our intel to China via 3com... extolling free trade. What the hell is wrong with these people?
This is what happens when our country aborts itself out of existence... migration. Same as Europe.
I guess it’s time to go to D.C. again, what the heck.
BTW, did they forget Hezbollah has been in Central and South America for decades? That they’ve crossed for years?
“Irrespective, you can’t trust any of them.”
No you can’t. Bush has flat out lied through his teeth and continues to do so. What a game they have played with us.
Conservatives team with Teamsters to say no.
My thoughts exactly.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
uh that=they. sorry
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