Thread: Action Allert!!!! Mexican Trucks!!!! Need Data Collection

ACTION ALLERT!!!!!!!!

Alipacers we need your assistance.

We need to know what is going on with the Mexican Trucks right now.

Are they rolling, have they been stopped, how is this getting punched through while Congress is on break...

Please help us find articles stored on ALIPAC that describe what is going on. We are asking that you post the ALIPAC links and the title of the article in this thread.

Example.

Safe American Roads Act of 2007
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=79557

If you need any help or more instruction, please let me know.

We would like this information ASAP. We really need this information by tomorrow and sometime tonight would be best.

Thanks for you help.

Dixie

Seems it's a done deal by trickery in the Senate. There was a bill passed in the House to stop this pilot program which bill was never addressed with a Senate version. What the Senate did was attach something to the back of a spending bill allowing the implementation of the program. When you call the Senators about answering the House bill they say it's no use as it's a done deal.

Mexican rigs ready to roll
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=79298

Teamsters to Try to Block Mexican Trucks
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=80229

Bush Administration Response to Teamsters' Mexican Trucks Suit Due Today
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=80426

Bush urges court to allow Mexican trucks in U.S.
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=80461

The Teamsters were expected to submit an answer to the White House challenge at 7pm EST. Anything on the court decision?

Public Citizen says the president is defying congress.Take a look at this.

www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2497

What in hell is this President drinking in his coffee in the morning? Is he so far detached from the American people that he has lost his reasoning? Impeach this idiot before our entire country is in ruins.

Union: Mexican Trucks Begin Crossing Border Saturday
Union Asks Court To Block Mexican Trucks

POSTED: 9:32 am PDT August 29, 2007
UPDATED: 11:33 am PDT August 30, 2007


WASHINGTON -- The Teamsters Union said it has been told by officials in the Transportation Department's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that the first Mexican trucks will be coming across the border on Saturday.

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The union said Wednesday it would ask a federal appeals courts to block the Bush administration's plan to begin allowing Mexican trucks to carry cargo anywhere in the United States.

Teamsters leaders said they planned to seek an emergency injunction Wednesday from the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

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Prior Immigration Protests In San Diego County:
Protest Closes Border Crossing (June 2007)
Immigration Protest Turns Unruly (May 2006)
Hundreds Protest New Immigration Legislation (March 2006)

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"What a slap in the face to American workers, opening the highways to dangerous trucks on Labor Day weekend, one of the busiest driving weekends of the year," said Teamsters President Jim Hoffa.
Joining the Teamsters in seeking the emergency stay were the Sierra Club and Public Citizen.
"Before providing unconditional access throughout the country to tens of thousands of big rigs we know little to nothing about, we must insure they meet safety and environmental standards," Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope said.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, in a statement, said it was working closely with the department's inspector general "as his office completes an additional assessment of the program and we prepare a detailed response to that report."

The Bush administration said last week it would start the cross-border program once the Transportation Department's inspector general certifies safety and inspection plans.


Leslie Miller, a Teamsters spokeswoman, said attorneys for the federal truck safety agency advised the union's lawyers that they expect to get that certification on Friday. She said the Teamsters also were told by the agency attorneys that limited authority for trucks to begin crossing the border will be approved Saturday.

Supporters of the plan say letting more Mexican trucks on U.S. highways will save American consumers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Labor and driver-owner groups have been fighting the measure -- part of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement -- since it was first proposed, saying the program will erode highway safety and eliminate U.S. jobs.

A one-year demonstration project would allow 100 Mexican motor carriers full access to U.S. roads. It can begin as soon as the inspector general certifies that safety and inspection plans and facilities are sufficient to ensure the Mexican trucks are as safe as U.S. trucks.

Since 1982, Mexican trucks have had to stop within a buffer border zone and transfer their loads to U.S. trucks.

According to the CHP, 18 percent of Mexican carriers were sidelined in 2006. That figure stands in contrast with the 19 percent of American companies.

Previous Stories:
August 18, 2007: U.S. Roads May Open To Mexican Truckers
August 17, 2007: Plan To Open Borders To Mexican Trucks Moving Forward
April 23, 2007: Mexican Trucks May Be Driving Across U.S. Soon

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/politics/140 ... o&psp=news
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*there are several articles here:
http://www.teamster.org/
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Put the Brakes on Unsafe Mexican Trucks

Despite strong Congressional disapproval, the Bush
administration and Department of Transportation have announced
their plans to move forward with the Mexican cross-border
trucking pilot program very soon. As a recent Transportation
Department Inspector General audit report revealed, this
dangerous pilot program still does not meet all the safety
conditions required by Congress. The safety of millions of
Americans traveling on U.S. highways will be put in danger if
these unsafe Mexican trucks are allowed to cross the border.

Tell your members of Congress to put the brakes on unsafe
Mexican trucks!

For more information on this crucial issue, visit
http://www.teamster.org/action/politica ... /nafta.asp .

These were Homepage articles

Mexican truckers to be given full access of U.S. roads
Jun/25/2007
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=N ... e&sid=2342

Mexican trucks to be allowed to enter farther into Ariz., U.S.
May. 10, 2007
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=N ... e&sid=2143

Plan to let Mexican trucks deeper into U.S. hits snag in Senate
March 23, 2007
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=N ... e&sid=2039

Mexico mega-port plan key to 'NAFTA superhighways'
10/01/2006
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=N ... e&sid=1566

THIS IS FROM A TRUCKER'S MAGAZINE SITE:


http://www.landlinemag.com/Special_Repo ... trucks.htm


Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007 – For days, dozens of leaks, media reports, at least one legal action and even the official word from Mexico have claimed the cross-border trucking program was on track to begin as early as Saturday. However, it appears the word from the U.S. Department of Transportation is that it will delay the program until after Labor Day as it waits for a final report from the DOT’s Inspector General........more

American people get off your FAT A _ _ and put the ICE CREAM CONE DOWN

IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT

We keep letting this fool play with fire and we are the ones gettting burned.

Recall your senitors, your congressman and above all we can no longer wait to see what cards this wacko has up his sleeves in the name of a NAU and a new world order.

IMPEACHMENT is our only option then undoing what he has done

Lou Dobb's fill in tonight had a clip about it. She said that they will begin Sept. 1 (THIS WEEKEND!). She also reported that only 1 in 10 trucks will be inspected.

I just tried to find the transcript of tonight's show with no avail. Maybe someone else knows how to get it. She had good info.