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1st Mexican truck to enter US interior within days (Isn't third world status grand?)...
YahooNews ^ | 10/19/11 | Julie Watson

Posted on 10/20/2011 7:20:11 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

The first Mexican carrier is set to roll into the U.S. interior within days, but the Teamsters union and two California congressmen haven't given up on stopping the cross-border trucking program that had been stalled for years by safety concerns and political wrangling. U.S. Reps. Duncan Hunter and Bob Filner joined Teamsters President James Hoffa at the border Wednesday to take a bipartisan stand against the pilot project that will allow approved Mexican trucks to come deep into the United States. The first one will enter Texas on Friday. Hunter is a San Diego-area Republican, while Filner is a Democrat whose district includes California's border with Mexico. They were surrounded at a news conference by more than 75 union members from at least five states.

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TOPICS: Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California
KEYWORDS: mexicantrucks; nafta; perry; texas
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1 posted on 10/20/2011 7:20:16 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Look for an increase in fatals.


2 posted on 10/20/2011 7:21:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin
The Teamsters certainly will . . . although there wasn't an increase the last time we allowed it.
3 posted on 10/20/2011 7:24:03 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: BenLurkin

For sure....


4 posted on 10/20/2011 7:24:20 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Now the rest of the country gets to share in what the border region from Calif to Brownsville has always had.


5 posted on 10/20/2011 7:25:14 AM PDT by csmusaret (The only borders Obama has closed is a bookstore.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
These trucks were seen lined up at the border ready to enter ...



























6 posted on 10/20/2011 7:25:41 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

H. Ross Perot, was right.

Just saying.


7 posted on 10/20/2011 7:25:58 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

All hell breaks loose if one of these rolling heaps brings in a bomb....


8 posted on 10/20/2011 7:27:16 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: BenLurkin

I can see it now.....On vacation trying to see America and you get stuck behind 10 of these bean wagons in New Mexico doing 40 mph....A special hat tip to my government! FU!


9 posted on 10/20/2011 7:30:39 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: 1rudeboy

It’s odd that the teamsters and other unions want more illegals to pad their numbers, but scream bloody murder at this.


10 posted on 10/20/2011 7:33:12 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Scythian

great pics....It’s a comin for sure...When you take a family vacation you can bring back these pics to pass around the office...


11 posted on 10/20/2011 7:33:15 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Just bent them over america, even rush approved this one, now close your eyes.
12 posted on 10/20/2011 7:35:16 AM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: umgud

They are screaming bloody murder because the drivers aren’t unionized. Yet.


13 posted on 10/20/2011 7:35:16 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Right about many things. All along the walls in the building I work in are prints of his slides from the 92 and 96 elections. Spot on correct on many, many topics including NAFTA and the economy.

14 posted on 10/20/2011 7:36:41 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I'm assuming this is Mexico to USA.

And I gott'a question those EPA approved, clean-burning engines ...

15 posted on 10/20/2011 7:36:56 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Scythian

fascinating pics. link?


16 posted on 10/20/2011 7:37:03 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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To: umgud
The teamsters and the bedmakers union do not agree, what a shock.
17 posted on 10/20/2011 7:38:27 AM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

IF they are enforcing US safety and driver standards on Mexican vehicles, I’d say this would be a good thing. Its ultimate effect would be to force improvement of everything that US businesses and people have to deal with that comes from Mexico or exists in the border area, ranging from roads to driver standards to trucking regulations.

If they just plan to let in anything with wheels, however, this is a seriously bad idea.


18 posted on 10/20/2011 7:39:58 AM PDT by livius
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To: knarf

The EPA will fast track these heaps all over America with exemptions.....


19 posted on 10/20/2011 7:40:32 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: knarf
"Clean fuel burning engines?...We don't need no stinkin clean fuel burning engines!..."
20 posted on 10/20/2011 7:43:21 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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