? - Mexican Trucks in America
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Ok...? As much as I believe that the NAU is simply a spectre cooked up by the extreme right to scare us all into taking up arms against anyone a shade darker than mocha (and no, I don't condone illegal immigration), it IS a little disconcerting to me that the US DOT is allowing Mexican trucks to deliver goods within the United States instead of transferring them to American trucks at the border. The Teamsters are fighting it but as far as I know its happening as we speak. Yet another reason to keep anymore Wal-Marts from being built in NJ.
If anybody can come up with a better thread title than "?" and what I just edited it to, let me know.
There have been some Mexican truckers entering the US for years. They are 'inter-lined' w/ a US partner and actually run on the US authority. After Pres Clinton signed NAFTA; Mexican carriers were allowed to transverse the US w/ shipments to and back from Canada.
The biggest problem is the Mexican refuseal to allow US drivers entry.
The biggest problem is the Mexican refuseal to allow US drivers entry.
I have to admit that I was a little taken aback by a presentation from a US Congressman (from I think Texas) this week on CSPAN (my favorite channel).
He had photos of teenagers coming across the border in El Paso from Mexico with bookbags on their backs. They were heading to America to go to school for the day.
Do you believe that? I don't know what to believe any more.
He had photos of teenagers coming across the border in El Paso from Mexico with bookbags on their backs. They were heading to America to go to school for the day.
Do you believe that? I don't know what to believe any more.
Well, a friend of mine in Houston is having a problem with her kid, he is 7 and in a school where they're supposed to learn both English and Spanish. He can't keep up because everything, the tests, the books, etc is in Spanish. Now they are telling him he has to skip a grade to catch up. That is true. The thing with the kids crossing the border? That doesn't make sense.
Sadly, most of the folks in our government want to keep the cheap labor flowing for the businesses. That for them is more important than American citizens and their quality of life.
And no american student should be forced to learn spanish. English is the language of our country, if they want to speak spanish than let them go back to their own country.
Bad enough we got these rickety landscaping trucks driven by and loaded with people of questionable immigration status, now mexican trucks?
I say we've got to send these politicians a message, like by supporting Tom Tancredo for President, or anyone who wants a stop to the illegal invasion.
It's America...I like my ppl speaking english, my american dollars, and our beautiful flag!
And no american student should be forced to learn spanish. English is the language of our country, if they want to speak spanish than let them go back to their own country.
Bad enough we got these rickety landscaping trucks driven by and loaded with people of questionable immigration status, now mexican trucks?
I say we've got to send these politicians a message, like by supporting Tom Tancredo for President, or anyone who wants a stop to the illegal invasion.
It's America...I like my ppl speaking english, my american dollars, and our beautiful flag!
