...legal...there's that word again...
We've hundreds of thousands of illegals working here in NC. A couple of days ago, four of them just wrecked a company truck out on Hwy 64 near my old house, nearly killing a bunch of commuters.
The Highway Patrol let them go with a ticket. The local newsies id'ed them as illegals.
...a provision in NAFTA allows Mexican citizens to own and operate trucking companies in the US, which is fine...and the currently allowed provisions of NAFTA II (which are on the books) allow Mexican trucks and drivers to operate within the US already...they're coming, all right, legally.
The holdup was that US safety rules were disallowed for these trucks, and some people complained about that. Imagine!
Indeed. [bursting out in laughter--you are just funnin' me, right?]
Actually, I tried to warn people about this (and the takeover of the US gypsy trucking industry legally by Mexicans via treaty) a couple of years ago.
No treaty. Not legally. Three strikes, and I'm outta' here.
The only way a Mexican national can come to the U.S. (and my immigration law is somewhat hazy) in order to set-up a trucking company is to demonstrate to the immigration authorities that 1. he provides a unique service in demand (not), and 2. he has statutorily-set boatload of cash to invest (not). In other words, there is no legal way to do it, other than buying stock in an already-existing American trucking company.
In sum, you have been deliberately led to confuse cross-border trucking with trucking in general. Whoever did it succeeded mightily.