Posted on 09/09/2007 2:17:11 PM PDT by kellynla
The first Mexican truck authorized by a Bush administration program opening U.S. highways to trucking companies from south of the border crossed into the U.S. this morning at approximately 1:50 a.m. EDT at Laredo, Texas, headed for North Carolina, according to a report from Trucker.com.
WND research indicates Transportes Olympic, the Mexican trucking firm sending this morning's tractor trailer north, was actually selected to be the first across the border nearly six months ago, despite the administration's "last-minute" announcement of the carrier earlier this week – a revelation that has been described as an example of "stealth."
The designation of Transportes Olympic actually was made at a Feb. 22, 2007, ceremony held in Apodaca, a municipality of the city of Monterrey in the Mexican state Nuevo Leon, the headquarters location of Transportes Olympic.
The government ceremony in Mexico went virtually unreported in the U.S. media.
In attendance were Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters, together with her Mexican counterpart, Luis Téllez, secretary of communications and transportation, and José Natividad Gonzáles Parás, governor of Nuevo Leon.
There Peters officially blessed Transportes Olympic as the first Mexican trucking company that would be allowed to operate freely in the U.S. under NAFTA.
Gov. Gonzales Paras and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters at Transportes Olympic in February 2007.
That Transportes Olympic had been selected months earlier was not disclosed last Thursday when John Hill, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, announced Transportes Olympic to the U.S. public.
Hill's announcement came in a dramatic, surprise late-night telephone conference held with selected members of the U.S. media at 9:00 p.m. EDT, after many deadlines had past for filing Friday morning stories.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
This is B.S.
This North American union is B.S. and helps big money and hurts the American worker.
For his amnesty b.s. an this I can no longer support this president.
The trade consists of American companies shipping parts and finished goods. there will be US Customs involvement and no bypass.
The new ports will augment the overcapacity port at Long Beach. Like it or don’t, the west coast ports are not caable of much growth and the Mexican port will provide relief.
Your fears are irrational.
This off the website etruckers.com:
Trucking Headlines
Cross-border trucking program begins with a fight
By Jill Dunn
“The start of the cross-border trucking program with Mexico was met with a lawsuit from the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and criticism from various parties, including Sen. Hillary Clinton and other presidential hopefuls.”
Great! Thank your Jorge. Now the Democrats, inculding Hildebeast, have something to Beat Republicans over the head with. Bush, when finished with his terms (I voted for him too) will have done more damage to conservatives and the GOP, than all of the Dems put together.
I’m sure this won’t cause any problems. /sarcasm
My latest contact with NAFTA is in real estate. I know a woman real estate worker that left California to sell real estate in Mexico. The pictures she showed me were of ocean view lots, pine trees, access to a beach. Many Americans, she says, are buying in Mexico. Costs are much cheaper than in the USofA. She thinks that this will not last. With demand, prices will go up.
Complete lie. The malquiladoras have had a system in place since the late '70s or early '80s for this purpose.
The new ports will augment the overcapacity port at Long Beach. Like it or don’t, the west coast ports are not caable of much growth and the Mexican port will provide relief.
Another lie. Why don't you just post a link to your source of talking points?
Your fears are irrational.
You are irrational. A supporter of the illegal alien criminal invasion too. I would bet that if you had spent 15 years studying the worm in a tequila bottle instead of the wooly worm you would have more of a clue as to the world around you.
This is an invasion and you are NOT on the American side of it.
Mexico is serious about preventing all illegal immigration into their cesspool. I think your friend is a liar trying to sell you a bill of goods.
I think those who believe they are buying cheap real estate south of the border will some day learn it was, in reality, expensive rent.
The liberal U.S. Media has avoided reporting speeches by, and interviews with, Mexican officialdom on this subject. The first I realized the extent of this was in 1994 when sitting in Harbin, China, listening to the BBC by short wave radio (Voice of America is really lousy for news and views). The BBC carried a report of illegal immigration across the border near San Diego at that time. The BBC interviewed the Mexican General Consul to the Pacific Northwest (USA), who openly told Americans that it was useless to try to stop the movement of Mexicans to the USA - “...JUST GET USED TO IT” he said! He criticized American efforts to keep its borders closed.
I jumped up and immediately wrote a letter to the BBC and got the tape of the interview in the return mail. I made a transcription of the entire interview and sent it to my elected representatives. RESPONSE? Only general comments on immigration policies. NO comment on the interview itself! NO direct statement on the Consul’s remarks, nor any word that they might investigate the Mexican official position.
Wolfinator, are you somehow in the dark, and believe that our elected “representatives” are today really representing us? Our “representatives” are basically ignoring us! They generally lie to us through their teeth(!) - while they’re running for office and while they sit in their congressional or other legislative seats.
My wife and I are very REGULAR correspondents to our elected representatives on all levels, local, state and federal. We keep the replies and have large stacks of them filed by subject. We home school our children, and in composition, history and government classes we teach them to write to elected representatives. And they see us do it and they read our letters. They read the replies. Our kids can see easily from comparing their letters with each others that our elected reps are a pack of lying dogs. They deceive the American people with obvious intent!
Another example of this is our voluminous letters on the subject of the military draft. I have written to and received responses from our state and federal “representatives,” Selective Service and the Department of Defense. ALL OF THEM LIE ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF WOMEN IN COMBAT ROLES The LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH!
All of the above have said that a draft, if needed, would be to supply combat troops, and since BY LAW WOMEN DON’T SERVE IN COMBAT ROLES, women would not be subject to being drafted. Why, even the recent photos of President Bush in Iraq, posted on Free Republic, document females in Marine COMBAT units. I have, in the last week, sent the unit designation, shown in those photos, to our elected representatives, and am asking, then , why the Marine Corps are BREAKING THE LAW by including females in those COMBAT units. Any military officer would have to tell you that any individual in a combat unit, placed in a combat zone, is in fact filling a combat role.
But my point is that you seem to express that our nation, our borders and our nation’s sovereignty are somehow protected by the good auspices of our elected representatives. NO, THEY ARE NOT. We now have an elitist Congress (especially the Senate) and Presidency, that are perfectly willing to mislead us and outright lie to us.
I am not a fan of Unions, but I am less a fan of open borders. I am at war in my mind and heart against Mexico’s officialdom with regard to the sanctity of our borders, having seen and heard the evidence that they do not respect U.S. sovereignty at all.
I have come to fully believe that it is the intent of Mexico, with the aid of many of OUR own elected "representatives" to further erode our borders and our sovereignty, and to FORCE US TO JUST GET USED TO IT.
I will stand with those who believe that the trucking scheme is all part of a larger plan to destroy U.S. sovereignty and to force a “North American Union” upon the U.S. and Canadian Citizenry. The planners are using a communist-style “two steps forward — one step backward” approcah to shove this down our throats.
save your time and efforts...
we have a number of clowns on FR who because they are either the most naive persons on the planet or the dumbest;
but they have spent the last six friggin years making excuses for GWB’s failure to enforce the immigration laws and secure BOTH borders.
After the next 9/11 terrorist attack in America it won’t make any difference because Bush’s legacy will have gone to hell in a hand basket and every muzzie will have to pack up his koran and family and go back to whatever hellhole they originated from. And every illegal alien will have to go back to the shithole they originated from and “get in line” just like our ancestors did.
Point, Game, Set, Match.
Not as easy as you might think. Those trucks should all be going through VACIS, which will pick up anomolies in the cargo.
It was a rational time to do it.
The truck underwent intensive inspection at a time when there was no peak traffic to disrupt. If they'd tried to do it at high noon, with the media coverage and possible protesters, the port would have been severely impacted.
“Not as easy as you might think. Those trucks should all be going through VACIS, which will pick up anomolies in the cargo.”
I think you meant “anomalies.”
But you need to read this, Marine!
Border Checks Limited to Speed Traffic (More incompetence!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892630/posts
The borders need to be secured.
All illegals deported.
And we sure as hell DO NOT NEED MEXICAN TRUCKS on American freeways, roads and streets! PERIOD
I have read that. I believe that the wait time procedures pertain to passenger vehicles, not commercial trucks. The procedures for commercial trucks are different.
If I have time tomorrow I’ll check on it, and post if I find I’m wrong.
again...it is irrelevant whether or not you are right or wrong; WE DO NOT WANT NOR DO WE NEED MEXICAN TRUCKS ON AMERICAN ROADS! And come 11/2008, the clowns in D.C. will get the message regarding illegal aliens, Mexican trucks and illegal drugs crossing the border!
Point, Game, Set, Match
Good evening!
No, no. This must be some mistake. A hoax perhaps. Michael Medved has been adamant in assuring us that there is "no such agreement" and Bush "never signed anything." And we are all conspiracy nuts to believe this news release.
Are you volunteering to drive your rig into the heart of mexico?
Speaking for myself, I have no heartburn with trucks that are properly inspected and roadworthy, regardless of where they originate.
Good evening back to you! Must go cook dinner.
If that is all that turned out, it was pitiful indeed.
The signs also needed to be in Spanish, too. They mostly said "No Mexican Trucks in the USA." More people need to turn out on these things.
Mexico sends 1st long-haul trucks to US (Two delivered payloads in New York and South Carolina)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/9/07 | Lisa J. Adams - ap
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893740/posts
Posted on 09/09/2007 6:48:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MEXICO CITY - Two Mexican tractor-trailers have delivered payloads in New York and South Carolina, becoming the first trucks to operate deep in the United States under a long-delayed, NAFTA-mandated program criticized on both sides of the border.
The trucks, operated by Transportes Olympic, a company based outside the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, crossed into the United States carrying steel construction materials and will haul similar products from Arkansas and Alabama back across the border, Mexican Transportation Secretary Luis Tellez said Sunday.
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