[Terabitten]

CBP Ping.

FReepmail me to get on or off of this low volume Customs & Border Protection ping list.

[Red Badger]

9 Tons.......uh, 7 tons..........5 tons..........a truckload..........couple of O-Zees.........

[mtbopfuyn]

El Presidente Jorge wants to open the border for more Mexican trucks.

[frithguild]

I’ll have a q.p. of Panama Red and a flat screen to go!

[Huck]

Meaningless.

[robertpaulsen]

"Eligibility for the FAST program requires participants (carrier, drivers, importers, and southern border manufacturers) to submit an application, agreement and security profile. The FAST program allows known low risk commercial shipments to receive expedited border processing at cargo ports of entry."

They want to do exactly the same thing for airline passengers. Fingerprints, backgound check, etc, and you get expedited processing at the airports.

This demonstrates what can happen -- the bad guys will use the method of least scrutiny.

[freeengineer]

at 4:20 eh?

[From One - Many]

Does this mean the ‘free roads program’ is now hand in hand with the open borders program? If these types of crackdowns continue will the shootings become more frequent? Wait don’t tell me...I think I know the answer.

[Colorado Doug]

Wow! Who could have seen this coming? Free and Secure Trade is so inherently good I’m sure this is just a fluke and will never ever, ever happen again. Certainly this will be the only time that the Mexican truck drivers will try to smuggle something across the border besides, it’s really the border patrol’s fault. They are not supposed to look so close.

[RoadKingSE]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Calexico, Calif. east commercial facility detained a Mexican truck driver

I wonder what gave him away?

[tubebender]

Those bales look like they are wrapped for ocean shipment so they can be tossed overboard if the Coast Guard shows up.

This was in a local paper yesterday... FEDS SAY, POT PRICES COULD FALL

[wildbill]

Are they going to auction off the TVs? How do you find the list?

[Not A Snowbird]

Nice job, Calexico!

The 25-year-old driver...was registered in the Free and Secure Trade (FAST) program...

We caught an ecstasy smuggler in our Nexus lane last week; unfortunately, there will always be those who betray trust, no matter how carefully they're screened. People who abuse the trusted traveler lanes need to have the book thrown at them.

[calcowgirl]

The 25-year-old driver, a resident of Mexicali, was registered in the Free and Secure Trade (FAST) program ...FAST is a Border Accord Initiative between the United States, Mexico and Canada designed to ensure security and safety of trans-border commercial shipments, while enhancing economic prosperity of both countries.

Drug running is a prosperous business, no doubt. Free Trade! Yippeeeee!

[Perchant]

I wonder if Bush has sent the pooch on a special mission to Korea yet. The poor mutt has no idea of the problems he has caused.

[RobRoy]

First gas prices are up, and now this...

/s

[Old Professer]

That’s about 60 acres worth of a bumper crop.

[Perchant]

The FAST program allows known low risk commercial shipments to receive expedited border processing at cargo ports of entry.

Good thing this was one of the "low risk" shippers. This was the official Mexican Government drug trafficking cartel and the proof of that will be the lack of arrests or any sort of real investigation of this incident, especially south of the border. The truck driver, who is probably innocent anyway, will be released in a month or two ( or however long it takes Americans to forget the incident ) and it will be like it never happened. They might even send the drugs back to the Mexican Government to be repackaged and sent on another northbound shipment; Mexico will need that material as "evidence" for their sham investigation.

Is there any wonder that they got this program rolling at the same time they stepped up border patrol presence and fence building? Gotta keep the narcotics flowing.