[ConservativeofColor]

because it is naive to believe that any of these goods are inspected.

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.

[wideawake]

With that statement you've made my point. Why make a bad situation worse?

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.