Posted on 09/10/2007 11:48:46 AM PDT by kellynla
Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan plans to offer an amendment today that would block the controversial federal program allowing Mexican trucks to operate freely on roads across the U.S.
Barry Piatt, spokesman for the North Dakota senator, told WND the amendment to the Fiscal 2008 Department of Transportation appropriations bill essentially will say, "None of the funds made available under this Act may be used to establish or implement a cross-border motor carrier demonstration or pilot project or program to allow Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate beyond the commercial zones on the United States-Mexico border."
Piatt said the amendment could come up for a vote in the Senate tomorrow or Wednesday.
Dorgan has scheduled a 2:30 pm Eastern Time press conference in the Senate today to announce his decision to offer the amendment .
WND reported last week, Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., charged the Bush administration with being "hell-bent on opening our borders, but has failed to require that Mexican drivers and trucks meet the same safety and security standards as U.S. drivers and trucks."
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The I assume you are against the importation of any goods into the United States from outside our borders, because it is naive to believe that any of these goods are inspected.
At least 98% of what happens in Washington these days is nothing more than juvenile, transparent political posturing -- and this is no different.
Closer to a more than a decade.
GOOD FOR HIM!
Many proponents of this scam have mentioned reciprocal transit into Mexico by US truckers as freely as into Canada. Well, Canada is not rife with highwaymen wearing badges.
Here are two links about vehicle hijacking in Baja.
http://www.baja.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=23845
and
http://www.baja.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=23856
And people fall for it.
President Bush's hands are tied. There is not really anything he can allow/disallow.
I suspect that may be why our borders are porous. We just don't know what's in the treaty.
With that statement you've made my point. Why make a bad situation worse?
I'm opposed to this program for many reason including the fact that it adopts the inherent dangers you've now agreed exist. It also goes further by allowing unsafe trucks on the same highways I drive say nothing of costing countless American jobs.
Since there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that this amendment will be passed, Mr. Dorkman may as well have proposed an amendment that outlawed lung cancer.
My point is that we allow importation of goods by sea and by air from every area of the world.
Am I really supposed to believe that a Mexican truck is more dangerous than a cargo flight from EgyptAir or a freighter from Brazil?
Importing goods by road from Mexico is no more dangerous than these other imports we take every day.
We do not require Brazil to transfer all their goods from a Brazilian ship to a US ship a few miles offshore before it can be brought into port.
That's a ridiculous waste of time and money.
But now we want to have Mexican-owned trucks offload their goods into an American-owned truck a few miles over the border.
That's just welfare for Teamsters. It makes no logical sense.
“And the Teamsters thank him.”
We all should. There is no benefit to our nation to allow this.
I live 3 miles from a truckstop on the main artery where these trucks will be going. I do not want to have these guys in my neighborhood.
That'd be a much better excuse if Bush himself didn't support and love NAFTA.
I am not buying this "Bush's hands are tied" thing. Some foreign panel ordered it, huh? Is Bush not the president? Is America not a sovereign nation? Who gives a damn what this panel rules?
Just another time(unprotected borders)that Bush is knowingly absent from his oath of office to protect this nation from it's enemies and I don't believe he gives a damn!
This guy is a joke and is playing dumb which shows he(Bush)is immature politically and useless as a leader at least for the remainder of his presidency.
I agree. I saw no benefit to this country, only harm in allowing Mexican trucks.
It's benefiting someone, DoughtyOne,but it sure isn't the United states taxpayer.
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