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 ...
11/2008 won’t come soon enough for me...
“Now Mexico can ship illegal aliens and illegal drugs to America by the trailor load.”
I’m sure they have already started........and there is no
inspection of cargo!!
Here’s to a strong candidate and united party out of the GOP convention.. (I know, I know,, dream on) fingers crossed anyway
It is thus.
Is that the candidate who has open border zealot Spencer Abraham working on his campaign staff?
Would that also be the very same candidate who is a member of the globalist organization, the Council on Foreign Relations, which organization is promoting an NAU and removal of our borders?
Sooner or later, we are going to have to give the muzzies the jihad they so desperately want.
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
Ann Coulter
It’s getting easier and easier for Democrats to position themselves to Dubya’s right.
Surely you jest...The first Mexican president in our White House doesn't want to hurt Mexico's feelings about little details like that.
ouch! hehehe....hope it stings.
What you said!
Americans can’t truly buy ocean view lots in Mexico. They can work out access agreements with the state and federal governments.
Muchos gracias Senior Presidente Jorge El Segundo, El Gringo de Mexico.
This man should be impeached on his border policies. He is a total disgrace and so is each and every Congressharlot in both parties who have aided and abetted his border policies.
From pandering to Mexico to preaching the gospel of Global Warming, to sucking up to the Saudis and Wahhabists, Bush II has been a total catastophy.
Aside from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Republican candidates shouldn’t even be seen in the same room with him.
His presence should be barred from the Convention in 2008.
You certainly have both eyes open, unlike many others who reduse to see reality up close.
looks like the North American Union is being slipped in through the back door. Take that you serfs!
>The planners are using a communist-style “two steps forward — one step backward” approcah to shove this down our throats.<
That’s the Democrats way of doing things. Republicans have more brains, “two steps forward - one step backward — one step sideways”.
Using this method they can honestly say they aren’t going down the same road as last time they tried to screw us.
The truck will have a return load going back to Mexico. It will not be inspected by us, no need because it’s going out of the country, not in. We won’t even weigh them on the way home.
>how many are set up for transcontinental?<
All of them. These are longline rigs with sleepers on them.
That stepping 'sideways' is what got Larry Craig in trouble....
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