[1rudeboy]

A Mexican cannot set-up shop here under NAFTA. NAFTA allows for Mexican trucks to cross the border and make deliveries here, or pass through to Canada. International, yes. Intranational, no. Furthermore, all Mexican trucks must comply with the same safety and insurance regulations that their U.S. and Canadian counterparts must follow. I think you've been drinking too much of the Teamster hooch, or smoking too much of the Public Citizen greenleaf.

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.

[Ben Ficklin]

NAFTA: Transportation Related Provisions