Checking ID of port truckers could stall freight across U.S.

AZ RED STAR NET ^ | 01.03.2007 | Stephen Franklin and Darnell Little

[radar101]

The situation is made worse, he said, by truckers whom he calls "bottom feeders" because they offer rock-bottom prices for hauling

TRANSLATION: Mexican based trucks, with Mexican drivers, allowed to break rules and regs bu "Political Correctness".

[sure_fine]

But a number of the drivers are undocumented immigrants, and they may soon find themselves out of work. So, too, freight may begin backing up across the country.

dog gone it, why can't the govt tax more people more money and develope a transporter like on the liberal whackos bible, Star Trek?

[o_zarkman44]

yeah, the illegals only do the jobs Americans won't do.

Who allowed the undocumented workers the access to jobs without recourse due to illegal immigration status?

The government of course! The government must think we Americans are really stupid, because they work like that every day.

[Made In The USA]

"But a number of the drivers are undocumented immigrants, and they may soon find themselves out of work."

I am so sick of the expression 'undocumented immigrants'. Let's cut the PC bull crap, and use the label that is correct: 'illegal immigrant'.

It's like calling a bank robber an 'undocumented withdrawal agent'.

Immigrate here if your willing to become an American, work hard, and be a contributing part of our society.

[Hornet19]

I prefer the legal, and more accurate, terminology: Illegal Alien.

[traditional1]

I'm tired of the sympathy to the ILLEGALS (yes, the law-breakers) where complaining about deporting the invaders will destroy the U.S. Economy. The invaders are DESTROYING taxpayers, by forcing them to pay for anchor babies, paying for flooded school systems, paying income taxes for those ILLEGALS who are paid cash (day laborers) while the MSM claims "they pay taxes and social security" just like citizens (only when paid via check and via fake ID's), and destroying citizens' votes by voting illegally, and voting Liberal to keep the entitlements flowing.....

It's no different than a drug kingpin spreading some of his cash to the community, then having those recipients on the jury to vote not-guilty, because they are beholding to the ILLEGAL drug dealers' handouts. What crime should go unpunished when the law-breaker is providing a service? Rape, murder, theft, etc.? That's effectively what we're doing as a country by allowing businesses to use the cheap ILLEGAL labor and forcing the taxpayers to pay for his/her benefits that are rightfully ONLY for U.S. Citizens.

[joe fonebone]

doing the jobs americans won't........

[panthermom]

I am sick to death of these scare tactics. My gosh, like the United States is going to come to a complete stand still, the nation is going to be in utter turmoil because the laws are enforced. Please, I don't care what they raise the cost of consumer good to, it will never be near the cost of free education, healthcare, food stamps and a decline of quality of life.

[OldFriend]

And now you get to the real reason the left and some misguided republicans didn't want Dubai Ports to take over.

Making sure that security clearances were a top priority would have hurt the unions, the mobs, and the demonrat supporters.

[cripplecreek]

My mother finally finished an extended "vacation" because "there was no freight to be hauled."

[bert]

No, they would be drivers who enter the business and lack managerial skills to run a business. Once they get beyond owning and operating one or two trucks they are in trouble.

[nevergore]

Ya' mean they underbid legitimate business by using illegal aliens?

Who wudda figured?

First the trucking companies...what next? Landscaping companies, Meat Packing companies???? Nah....that would be absurb....

[spintreebob]

One option is to just leave the Chinese crap on the ships and not unload it.

Fewer drivers needed. Less crap in Walmart. Fewer empty ships available to return to China for the next load.

This might be a solution both pro-immigration people like me and the antis could agree on.

[WorkingClassFilth]

a trucking industry expert at California State University-Long Beach, estimates that at least one-fifth of the drivers at the Los Angeles-Long Beach ports are illegal immigrants.

If trucking companies, heck, any companies, are using illegals, they should be fined heavily enough so that they are strongly deterred from - oops! - hiring illegals. The fines should go to a fund to recompense crime and vehicular accident victims of our illegal criminal guests. If cargo movement stalls, too bad. Somebodies going to figure out the game pronto (a little Spanish lingo for all you illegals out there) and find that strict compliance is a way of speeding things up from the get go. We do NOT care about the consequences of cleaning up the system because we trust in the market to take care of distribution problems.

[savedbygrace]

Or like calling a drug dealer an undocumented pharmacist.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Let's cut the PC bull crap, and use the label that is correct: 'illegal immigrant'.

Sorry, friend, but that term is PC in itself. There is no sense of immigration in this problem at all. These people simply move here in violation of all laws and that is an invasion - not immigration. The correct term is, was, and always will be: illegal alien. You may also use invaders if space and time are limited.

[pandoraou812]

Totally agree with you. I am sick of hearing.... Jobs Americans won't do... I am sure the truck driver jobs will be filled just like any other job where the illegals get caught at. Its about time Americans got work for decent wages and the illegals went home. ....I am sick of illegals getting everything free and it costing us more.

[Hornet19]

If the so-called NAFTA Superhighway gets built, the longshoremen in Long Beach and elsewhere can kiss their jobs goodbye.

Foreign goods will be shipped to a port in Mexico. The goods then go by rail to the terminus of the highway and the Mexican truckers that will bring the goods into the United States.

This 'stuff' disgusts me.

[JohnBovenmyer]

There are two separate lessons from the whining in this article. First, that illegal immigration is a problem for all the reasons cited up thread. Second, that it doesn't take high priced union labor and the Teamsters to do what's needed for the job. Get rid of both the illegals and the costs they displace onto other sectors of the market and of the closed, union only, workshop. Let the unions compete in a free market. They'll win work where they can show a higher productivity from a more highly skilled workforce merits their higher pay demands. When lower skills (at a minimum adequate English language and driving skills to keep the roads safe) suffice let the market choose lower priced labor. Set the fines for consequences of overly cheap, unsafe hiring high enough to discourage corner cutting.