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Mexican Trucks Begin Crossing Border Saturday

nbcsandiego.com — Making it even easier for the terrorists. Prelude to the North American Union. 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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  • homerj1965, on 10/10/2007, -11/+51Sounds like the North American Union has begun.
    • nmeadata, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8More like the dissolution of any union
    • msarge, on 10/10/2007, -13/+6What's so scary about the North American Union again?
      • mmazing, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10How about the eventual dissolving of the Constitution, that's fairly scary ....
        • jeffchuck, on 10/10/2007, -10/+4Being nice to our neighbors is against the constitution?
        • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1That would be scary if it were remotely true.
        • polyGone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3...as opposed to the strict adherence we have now...?
      • maiku00, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3now its even easier for corporations to have all their products made in mexico and shipped straight to U.S. stores right out of the factories

        free market / outsourcing / freedom FTW!
        • emjaymj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Considering all the stuff that's been happening with Chinese-made products lately, it's probably a good thing to be opening up Mexico :)
          • Dush, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0No, it's not that the factories are in mexico. It's that the Chinese or otherwise made products don't have to come through US ports and checks in order to be transported into the US now. US dock workers lose jobs. US truck drivers are in less demand. Who knows what the inspections, if any, are like at the Mexican ports

            Maybe in the near future we will see a reverse where US citizens will start crossing into Mexico to find work...
    • subcomandante, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4We started this union before you Europeans invaded us.
    • UWake911, on 10/10/2007, -7/+10Well stop it. The American truck drivers need to block the hiways to stop this crap. Action is the only way, now that your Government is controlled by Zionists and the goals of the One World Government.
      • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3And why exactly do "American Truckers" need all this protection from honest competition?
        • jsmith39, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Think of it as protecting the American traveler from hundreds/eventually thousands of heavy rig drivers that come from a country with different mechanical standards laws and different driving laws. Take it a step further and realize that we police our own drivers (if inefficiently) for drug abuse and alcohol consumption, get a DUI and lose your license. We'll have no way of knowing the track records of the drivers from Mexico.
      • zacharytelschow, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Not one world government, one world economy; open and free communication and trade.
    • Konrad9, on 10/10/2007, -9/+8The European Union has clearly caused the downfall of every nation involved.
      Man, it sure would suck if we didn't need passports to go to Canada or Mexico, or if we all used the same currency.
      Yeah, down with t... wait, why does this suck?
      • generalloy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12EU has an elected Parliament, a Court of Justice, and a commitment to human rights. They also have an effective antitrust anti-monopoly commitment, and an commitment to high regulatory standards. EU is composed of small nations who kept warring with eachother. No comparison to the confederations of Canada and the US.
        SPP, NAFTA, and NAU are all about the LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR. Mexico wages, Mexican regulatory standards, Mexican drug standards, "one market" standards and the ability to sue for 'distortions' if anyone has higher standards.
        To your second sentence, Mexico and Canada don't care about Americans needing passports to enter their countries. They care about their democracy.
      • tehxen3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Also EU has an economy with higher unemployment, collapsing welfare system, low growth and lower living standards than US.
        • vfrex, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Higher unemployment probably has something to do with their ridiculous socialist policies.
        • Pfhreak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union
          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States
          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

          "EU has an economy with higher unemployment,..."

          Unemployment: EU: 6.9%, US: 4.4%... you are correct. However, twenty-three of the twenty-seven member-nations have seen improvements in unemployment over the course of the last year. One of the four that showed no improvement or worsened just barely joined in July. Of the ten that joined in 2004, eight are "recovering" Soviet Bloc countries, an all but Hungary have shown strong employment growth.

          "...collapsing welfare system,..."

          I hadn't heard of this. Can you direct me to your sources?

          "low growth[,]..."

          Their GDP growth was 3.1% vs the American 3.2%, hardly significant. Conversely, the EU inflation was only 1.9% to the American 2.5%.

          "...and lower living standards than US."

          I haven't been able to find an HDI score for the EU newer than 2003: 0.922, which put it 22nd at that time. Assuming no HDI increase since then (possible, given the large number of former Soviet Bloc countries which joined in 2004 and 2007) it would be ranked 24th today. Assuming it retained its rank, it would be ~0.93 today. This compares with the US rank of 8 and an HDI of 0.948. You are correct that the living standards are lower, but not by much at all. Further, the Wikipedia table shows the vast majority of the member-nations having a positive HDI growth rate, which means the difference in living standards is probably even smaller.
    • maiku00, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20"Supporters of the plan say letting more Mexican trucks on U.S. highways will save American consumers hundreds of millions of dollars."
      Yeah, just like how outsourcing already saves American consumers hundreds of millions of dollars. And jobs.
      What a load of trash.
      • generalloy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9That's a good point. Why do they need to save all that money? Because their jobs and wages are not keeping up.
        Ask Wal Mart who recently said their own customers are running out of money at the end of the month....hint, Mr. Ford figured out that you have to pay your employees enough to keep the economy going.
      • Dush, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Exactly. Even if it saves $600 million, that's only $2 a person for something that will probably increase danger and decrease jobs in the US.
    • Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Apparently, this is going to be a battle against the shortsighted who can't truly comprehend that this is one chess move towards an ultimate goal. and what is that? World government. That's why you hear conspiracy theorists talking about the New world order. It's the dream of the unity of all nations on the planet into a single unit. The problem with that is that we know the potential heads of that said government are already criminal beyond belief.

      Massive CIA run giant child kidnapping rings that has already claimed at minimum 6 million lives. You have massive mismanagement and ultimately widespread calamity because we should know, central government is a burden on the minorities and those far away from that government.

      This really isn't even a topic up for argument. This goes against the constitution. And we know, only 1% of the population fought the revolutionary war and by the end it ended with only 5% having participated on the side of the colonies. You may not know or think this is wrong for a number of reasons. But for those of us who know the stakes, we'll be fighting. I hope to see my brothers with me when that Paul Revere Comes.

      Because damnit, It's done a lot of bad, But I LOVE my Country.
      • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Uh... I was going to respond but "Massive CIA run giant child kidnapping rings that has already claimed at minimum 6 million lives" makes me think you are joking.
        • Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3I wish I was.

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          Drug trafficking, white slavery, prostitution and pornography finances secret New World Order programs. Elements in the CIA, FBI, Coast Guard, Military, ...
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          Saudi Arabia holds female American citizens in white slavery: an act of war ..... in the late 1990s, the CIA put the figure at about 50000. ...
          forum.atimes.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9183

          Saudi Arabia holds female American citizens in white slavery: an act of war.
          www.omdurman.org/whitslav.html

          This slavery was even hereditary. White children born to White slaves were enslaved ... Nine-tenths of the White slavery in America was conducted without ...
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          "White slavery," notes scholar Albert Lindemann, "was a concern of Jewish leaders throughout the world, who recognized it as a special problem. ...
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          At the end of the 19th and beginning of the twentieth century, Jews were deeply involved in what was popularly called "white slavery": international ...
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          http://educate-yourself.org/tg/
          ted gunderson - child slavery, molestation
          • jimmy72, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Sounds to me like you're crazier than a ***** rat.
    • Influsion, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4This is the most retarded article I've ever read on digg. The 300 diggs or so are reminiscent of the deep irrational xenophobia rooted in your puny minds.

      How exactly does Mexican trucks = terrorism?

      Why do you think the world is suddenly going to end?
      • jsmith39, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I laughed at that as well, I disagree with NAFTA being forced down our throats but to use BS scare tactics? Only Americans can drive on American roads OR THE TERRORISTS WIN!

        What a crock of *****
    • mcduckov, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Gotta put one foot in front of the other to get to a One World State.
      • jsmith39, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Ooooh I can't wait! Just think the lowest/dirtiest/most degrading practices of every country being rolled up into one super government where we can all just rot in a cesspool of human indecency while the corporations race each other to see who can make the largest profit on suicide pills.
        • mcduckov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, no one said that getting back to the tribal life would be easy. Human beings need to be in groups of no more than ~100 people to live anything remotely akin to a happy life.
    • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1WTF you guys are dumbasses.

      Since when was it the end of the world when we saw Mexican truck drivers come through the US?
      I'm dead seroous on this. We see Canadian truckers up in the northern states.

      I guess its because the Mexicans aren't white.

      Believe it or not, but you white americans bring race into the mix subconsciously, and its the minorities that expose the ***** in the lime light, and then you guys blame the minorities for bringing race into the mix when race has always been into the mix.

  • endgame, on 10/10/2007, -16/+49Chalk this up to yet another screw up by our Government. Thousands or Mexican trucks on our highways because we dont have enough congestion already & dirty trucks. This just sickens me!
    • Stratochief66, on 10/10/2007, -12/+8100, for a year. RTFA.
      • Marc39, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15You seems to like to read yet your comprehension isn't very good. That's 100 Mexican motor carriers; meaning 100 different companies, each with many vehicles.
    • justinjstark, on 10/10/2007, -8/+11Are you insinuating that Mexican trucks are dirty?
      • pinkSocks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7It seems to me that he's insinuating that all freight trucks are dirty.
    • blackjack75, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4Trucks are dirty, from an environment point of view. Whether they speak spanish or not.
    • cvrefugee, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5The Mexican trucks were transferring their loads to American trucks near the border, so I fail to see how this will cause more congestion.
    • imgstacke, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0Worst Case Scenario

      Ok, I have to preface this by stating I hope with all my heart that I am completely and totally wrong about my assessment of the events of this summer up to date. I am often wrong, and I hope this is one of these cases. This is an exercise in pure speculation based on fragments of information that read over this past summer.

      First - I have always had my doubts about Alex Jones's *Warning* before 9/11. He makes a very accurate prediction before 9/11, the off the cuff matter in which he blurts out intimate details of the unprecedented attack has always made me wonder - How Did He Know. He didn't mention any specifics as to his sources he just saw it coming, but with such precision is still unsettling. After 9/11 Alex earn a premiere spot, he was alone in front of any one else for he was the one who predicted the attack. No one else could claim this thus he would always be seen as the defacto leader of any movement which was inevitable to spring up in the wake of such an attack.

      Fast Forward to Chertoff's Gut Feeling. He proclaimed that an attack was looming, this summer. Chertoff got a lot of flack for this out of character remark, but he said it nonetheless. He soon recanted and then the flurry of warnings from all corners of the GOP. And finally the dated Osama video that turned up. With the flurry of Terror legislation and Executive Orders it seemed that everything was in place. If something were to happen it would surely invoke all the carefully laid legislation that has been put in to place before and since 9/11.

      Now to an outsider of the 9/11 Truth Movement there would be no insight into the inner workings of an extremely complex and active infiltration operation at all levels of the 9/11 Truth Movement. It would seem all these organization have someone in place somewhere. From this vantage point suspicion of people in certain choke points in the movement would indicate that this infiltration is very well planned and carefully orchestrated. The movement has grown in awareness but has not grown to the critical mass state it always seems like everyone is waiting for Alex Jones, or someone to lead the march, but that has not happened.

      So here we are at the very end of the summer, and this KENNEBUNKTPORT WARNING comes out - with great pains to make sure it is circulated far and wide via various viral methods , never peaking above the MSM radar, but very well known in the 9/11 Movement. After the information comes out that one of the signers of the document states she did not sign the warning, it causes a controversy, and a similar backwash of information spreads along the same channels that the warning was came out. Talks of hoax and talks of fraud.

      This is on the heels of the PDX warnings, fear of a nuke of Portland, that spammed the indymedia site for quite a while during the exercise. Many smelled something funny about the volume of the warning coming out of this, Noble Resolve didn't seem to be an operation which could be flipped live, like on 9/11. So after the 24th everyone had developed a tolerance to these warnings right before the KENNABUNKTPORT WARNING.

      So as all the lines seem to be converging and with the speculation that Alex Jones' WARNING was not a warning after all but a plant to insure his position in the front of the movement, I see this WARNING from Tarpley with similar intent. To proceed what the disinformation artists like to call 9112b. This along with other suspect leaders in the movement actions of late, like Barretts promotion of "Inside Job?" Banner rolls. All the while Fezter is no more than a step away.

      This weekend the first trucks from Mexico will cross the boarder - they will not be subject to inspection until way inside the US, this labor day - the end of the summer. If there were to detonate a nuke of significant yield it could not possibly be small and easy to conceal, it would have to be assumed to be a crude nuclear device, something that some terrorist organization could manufacture. Something to track back out of the country - possibly via China from N. Korea.

      Now this would certainly bring up calls that this was an inside job, of course, we have been watching carefully. But who would thus fill the void of Alex's place? After all Alex must of lost his stuff for his warning last year was a dud, promoted on Fox News of all places. Tarpley, Fetzer, Barrett.
      With these men in front spewing out ludicrous theories and other such nonsense no one would hear our screams that this WAS AN INSIDE JOB.

      I hope I am wrong, and If I am fine, I will spend all of my credibility with this one post. I don't care.
      If there is a 9112B to come about, and we can do nothing to stop it, if I can insert some doubt about the legitimacy of these Disinformation Artists from moving into Fox News limelight, then it is all worth just one post.
    • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1WTF you guys are dumbasses.



      Since when was it the end of the world when we saw Mexican truck drivers come through the US?

      I'm dead seroous on this. We see Canadian truckers up in the northern states.



      I guess its because the Mexicans aren't white.



      Believe it or not, but you white americans bring race into the mix subconsciously, and its the minorities that expose the ***** in the lime light, and then you guys blame the minorities for bringing race into the mix when race has always been into the mix.
      BTW tehre are tons of economic benefits from this, and you guys are ignoring it because they are mexican. CAnadian truckers come through the US all the ***** time. Get of foyur high horse, and ***** look at your own racist *****.
  • LanceStallion, on 10/10/2007, -21/+24Everyone please Digg this article. Let's get a popular uprising going like we did with the Dubai ports deal and the Immigration reform bill.
    • TacticalPenguin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14Because government officials will totally read this.
    • Nerys, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2No off course not but MEDIA "might" (yeah I know a long shot) and if the media does Regular Joe america will and if they do THEN the politicians MIGHT listen. Yeah a big long shot but better than nothing....
      • fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You know what's better than that long string of maybes? Phone your government representatives, write letters to the newspapers and that kind of "real" action. Clicking "digg this" means, does and achieves nothing more than making the little number next to the story increase by one.
    • aywwts4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Actually it really is evident someone in the media is reading digg, very often a day after it hits the front of digg otherwise overlooked stories get nice placement and attention. sadly abc and yahoo seem to be the ones I notice the most often, but all three of the cable news networks and bbc do it to.

      I would say ABC and Yahoo mostly pick up the "Oddly enough" kind of stories, but sometimes a more important story gets through the filter. Don't doubt the power of digg to be used as a free tool for news media people to exploit to their advantage.

      Do I think digg has caused great change in the news media or the world, No. Do I think journalists who are out of ideas check digg from time to time, Yes.
      • Hazardc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yeah, something cool like the dubai ports deal.. where it was deemed necessary to insert a rider to ban online poker.
    • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3Yeah, because ignorant assholes hate all people with darker skin than they. The fact that neither the Dubai ports deal nor allowing Mexicans trucks to ship into America is any kind of security threat at all simply isn't relevant to knuckle-dragging jerks.

      Sovereignty means that we maintain control of our laws and our boarders. *Choosing* to allow these trucks to operate in the states under our regulations IS maintaining sovereignty.
      • jsmith39, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yeah... when we choose, not when they choose. You'll notice this deal goes through this weekend and this is the first time most of us are hearing about it, and we're on ***** news site.
        • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Speak for yourself. It's not news to me.
  • sjl127, on 10/10/2007, -18/+19Digg this. This is a sovereignty sell-out. Shame on all politicians for allowing this to happen. NO NAU.
    • spyd3rweb, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8The UN, NAFTA, WTO, WHO, NATO, are all sovreignty sellouts, and unconstitutional.
      • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1No you moron, the president and congress have the power and duty to pass treties and agreements. What is unconstitutional about the executive and legislative branches exercising their defined powers?
    • blackjack75, on 10/10/2007, -7/+3The UN is unconstitutional? Wow, you mean an organization that brings hundred of countries around a table to discuss does not comply with AMERICAN constitution? How could that be? What do those foreigners want seriously? Can't they read THE constitution?
      • Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2YEAH! You're saying the the U.N, the organization responsible for the raping, pillaging, looting, and standing by while genocide happens! The same entity that couldn't stop America from plundering oil and savaging 1 million Iraqi lives! Tens of thousands of Afghani lives. Not stopping the wars on western African until it was over! I can't believe you'd fault them!
        • jsmith39, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Boohoo those poor Afghani's and Iraqis.
          Thanks for pulling 2 examples that cast the US in a bad light out of the dozens of examples of the UN dropping the ball around the world.
  • logicize, on 10/10/2007, -9/+21This is just like the Immigration Bill, and Dubai ports deal. There is no way the people approve of this yet it happens anyway.
    • BelXul, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6At least The People defeated the recent Amnesty bill. The People can defeat this, too.
    • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -7/+3And just like witht he Dubai deal, ignorant racist pigs just can't handle a little honest competition.
      • Odlid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Its all about racism isn't it?
        • jsmith39, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's like Hitler, when you don't have a real point to make you just compare everyone else to a Nazi or call them a racist. It sort of proves your point... I guess.
        • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Well, it isn't about reason or good sense.
  • kamel, on 10/10/2007, -4/+79"Supporters of the plan say letting more Mexican trucks on U.S. highways will save American consumers hundreds of millions of dollars."
    No, it will save corporations hundreds of millions of dollars.
    • Stratochief66, on 10/10/2007, -16/+6And when one company lowers the cost of the products to reflect his savings and to compete with the others, the others will either lower their prices or lose the business. This is how free market capitalism works.
      • logicize, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16No, this is how our government along with big corporations will reduce this country to the level of Mexico.
        • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2God, you are just stupid. Can you even count to ten? Basic market economics isn't much tougher than that and apparently, you you can't follow basic logic.

          Business compete for customers. GET A CLUE.
          • jsmith39, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Trust me, you do not want to live in a strictly capitalist society. No social programs, minimal police/fire depart protection. No public schools, no public road repair. Everything little thing paid for directly by you or you go without.
      • kreneskyp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3you're making the assumption that they will lower prices. Just because they've lowered the production/transport costs doesn't mean they will lower the cost of the product. They will always consider THEIR bottom line first, not the consumer.

        They will only lower sale prices when 1) to compete against other prices 2) a lower price point generates so many extra customers that it makes up for the lower price.
    • Zeonix, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Uh....no, the companies will be saving money, we'll get charged the same amount on whatever product it is as always, and they'll be making millions in profit. Hooray.
      • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Yeah, that's why the prices of everything never comes down. Like DVD players and HD-DVD players and flat screen TVs and computers and.... wait a minuet.

        Companies *compete*. Wal-Mart is the enormous company it is because it provides it's products cheaply. But apparently, elementary supply and demand is beyond your ken.
    • tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6While American-trained, American-certified truckers driving American trucks get screwed. This blows (but it has nothing to do with some stupid NAU or NWO conspiracy)
      • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Well, I'm glad to hear from someone who's not a NWO crackpot but I would like to point out that "getting screwed" by allowing people to compete with you isn't exactly a travesty. Mexican drivers are not slave labor. It looks lkie honest competition to me.
        • tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I agree. I'm somewhat middle-ground on the free trade vs protectionism issue. Both sides can make a good point. My problem is that if they are doing the work cheaper by dangerously cutting corners (especially since they will be in the US), it's not competition, it's cheating.
          • matbot3i, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1The first comment I've read that I can agree with. Dugg.
    • tehxen3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Congrats kamel,That's the EXACT kind of thinking which made Mexico a dirt poor country compared to US.

      These companies will under competitive market environment invest this saved money into more jobs and/or pass the lower costs to customers and general economy.
      • kamel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No, a corporation's goal is profit. If you think that "savings" are passed on to customers, you're wrong. Prices go down on things, but that doesn't mean you're getting the same thing.
    • sjl127, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Those savings will DEFINITELY NOT be passed on to us.
    • thurows, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1And if it is like any other time there is an accident involving a Mexican national the police will let them go because of international relations and you'll be screwed. There go our insurance rates.
  • oriondarkwood, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13I agree that this is a corp screw job. However for the record thier is one key line that I think should be read and thought about
    "..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..."

    Do you really think they are going to past inspection? Also when have you known the government to be fast?

    Of course the caveat is large corps own the goverment so they find a way to bypass the law or just let them be illegal and pay the fine.. I mean what is 250K to a multi-billion dollar corp
    • 55sams, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Passing inspection is a done deal, bought and paid for.
      It is a fraud, all the way around.
      Check out a trucking forum: truck.net
      Truckers handle the economy.

      Join OOIDA.

      For any politician reading this:
      You're fired.
      Next Election.

      Political leadership is the problem.
    • johnpaul191, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2wait till somebody "important" is killed in an accident with one of these trucks...... then there will be a temporary freak-out.
  • logicize, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18"Do you really think they are going to past inspection?"
    Do you think there will really be an inspection to pass?
    • Stratochief66, on 10/10/2007, -12/+3Seriously, do the crazy folks see consipracy, even in this!? Thats right, logicize, the federal govenment is in collusion with 100 mexican truckers to offend your racist sensibilities.
      • logicize, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7The only people who still view the North American Union as a consipracy either support it or are too lazy to do a little research.
        • EuphopiaB, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't understand what you just said.
          But I feel I agree with you...
        • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1I've done the research. The north American union is nothing but a forum for coming to exactly the same kinds of trade agreements that the government has always engaged in. It has zero effect on the sovereignty of any of the parties.
    • bugonmybumper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0yes they will pass ,who do you think is doing the inspections ,the same people who said come on in
      p.s i am a trucker and go to El Paso every week and see there equipment it is ALL very old and out dated God help the people traveling in cars
  • Vinadetta, on 10/10/2007, -12/+13Take this step towards the NAU and add in a little sprinkle of the upcoming war with Iran and it's pretty easy to figure out where this country is headed.
    The intention and purpose of the U.S. government to go into a war with Iran is to suffer defeat and humiliation. Defeat and Humiliation. The U.S. is to lose any good reputation and credibility it has left so it can be punished. The world community will cry for it's punishment. Perhaps some U.S. citizens as well. The reason why this will happen is to get the United States into the North American Union with the least resistance as possible. People around the world will be applauding that last act. This is what Bush is told to do by his bosses who will have beaten that hurdle; any dissenting U.S. citizens because by then they will be in the minority of minorities.

    We will be another step closer to the North American Union and eventually the NWO
    • tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Wow, you're an idiot. Of course, no evidence, logic, or even basic common sense in your post. But hey, this is digg, where the dumbest ideas are dugg up if they agree with the basic mentality of the herd, but even intelligently written dissent is buried into oblivion.
    • mcduckov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The nation-state MUST die. The trend is as clear as day.
  • Detritus, on 10/10/2007, -21/+40I'm having a hard time figuring out why Digg has such a hard-on for this "NAU" story. We all agree that our media has saturated us with fear mongering that is completely over-blown and that "9/11" and "Terrorist" are just words used to distract us from thinking, right? Is there anyone here that honestly trusts any media outlet 100%? Hell I don't even trust NPR 100%.

    So why then is it that you are so willing to accept that somehow your safety is threatened and that terrorists are coming to get you because Mexican trucks are allowed in to do what Mexican trucks do? In your little part of America how in the hell does this possibly effect you? Are you a member of the Teamsters Union? Did you have aspirations of one day becoming a trucker?

    What is so horrible about a NAU? We're all sharing one world here, I can't imagine why building bridges to the rest of it gets so many people so pissed. As far as I can see this might be the first thing this administration has done that hasn't pissed me off.






    • BelXul, on 10/10/2007, -6/+5Actually, most often the media downplays the NAU's planned existence, likening it to conspiracy theories.
      • visability, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4Because it is one
      • Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3"because it is one"..

        ...my god....
      • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well I can't wait for the Amero.

        I'm tired of going to Germany, or the UK only to find out I didn't bring enough money or save up enough USD. SO I end up living like a hobo on my 5 days of vacationing that I get every two years.
    • TJATL, on 10/10/2007, -6/+9We are all sharing one world? Yet the world doesn't see eye to eye when it comes to, oh let's see, religion, morals, laws, freedom, representation, the role of government, individual rights, etc, etc, etc. That's why we have our sovereignty.
      • santaclaws, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9> the world doesn't see eye to eye when it comes to, oh let's see, religion, morals, laws, freedom, representation, the role of government, individual rights, etc, etc, etc

        Neither does the population of the US. Stop being so xenophobic, get a passport, and travel.
      • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1so how the hell does this infringe upon that?

        Canadian truckers come into the US all the time.

        What is the ***** difference here?

        besides the fact that they're mexicans thus not white. Thus dirty to you.

        Amy I correct?

        I bet I am.

        ***** racist twits.

        I mean you're wrose than those white teenagers that think that black people loved slavery, and that chattel slavery wasn't bad at all.

        When we all know this to be fiction.

        Or we deny the ***** we did to the natives.

        YOu decide.
    • onewingedangel9, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Blaming terrorists for doing anything has lost all value in my book. As far this deal goes, it seems like companies just want to cut costs but eliminating a useless transfer of cargo between vehicles near the border. That's something I expect corporations to want, and I'm not going to demonize them for it.
      • Nerys, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5ITs not the "switch" they want to avoid is the higher paid US truckers they want to avoid. You see a mexican trucker gets paid a fraction of what a US trucker gets paid. the actual transfer is inconsequencial from a cost perspective when compared to the cost of paying the truckers.
    • BlakeEM, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6When we have a North American Union the people loose power. Mexico and Canada now have a say in our laws here in the US. Mexico would be the ones checking our food for example. The US also has the lest amount to gain from it. Not to mention the people in the US have no say over it and it's being done in secret.
      • fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3Mexico and Canada are your neigbhours and your laws are stupid. One sec while i take off my shoes and pass them through an x-ray just in case there's terrorists hiding in them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        Obviously you misunderstand the meaning of the word "secret'. If you know about it, and I know about it, and lots of other people know about it, it's not really a secret after all.
      • Bamborzled, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4"The US also has the lest amount to gain from it."
        HA! The US will con and swindle Canada and Mexico if a North American Union were established, just like they did with NAFTA. Everything would be handled in the US, and Canada and Mexico would have no say whatsoever. You Americans won't lose power; we [Canadians] will.
      • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1WE will con and swindle Canada, and Mexico 80s style.
        Which is kinda illegal to do now, but dammit I missed the 80s way of doing business.

        You thought Enron was bad?

        Damn you must have not lived during the 1980s then.
    • CherryTzors, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9WHY should we care?
      I'm not a trucker, but when people can come in and start taking jobs from legal American citizens who have worked their asses off to get where they are today, that's when our government crosses the line.
      I've also never been a supporter of the NWO. The whole reason why America was formed was to get away from people who supported the idea of controlling the entire world and controlling every aspect of people's lives. Do I think bringing a republic form of government to countries would allow us to cooperate as a species and better the human race? Yes. Do I think it's plausable? No. The NWO wants us on top, being essensially a ruler making sure everyone else is following the rules and regulations we put in place. Whenever a country (or countries) has switched to a form of government where there is one person or group of people that control all of the other people in that country, it will lead to chaos and will collapse until a new leader appears, in which case the cycle will repeat. It happened in Nazi Germany, it happened in the Middle Ages (several times over), and it will happen when we attempt to become the leaders of the New World Order.
      Do we have a perfect world? By all means, no... but I say soverign countries have served us pretty well thus far.
      • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well so you say when people come in, and can compete against white americans. That is when you start to get mad.

        come on now think about that.

        why are you blaming the people, and not the employers that hire illegal immigrants.

        I say this because illegal immigrants are like you and I.

        They have a family they need to provide for. Mouths to feed. They come here hoping to do those basic human things. I don't have a problem with them.

        I have a problem with these slimy employers, and especially the republicans that scapegoated them in order to try and win the 2006 election.

        If oyu hadn't noticed this. Well payt he ***** attention.

        Republicans have a lot of voters that are biggots.
        They know this, and exploit this to the fullest.
        Remember 1987 election commercial?
        Showed a picture of a white girl and said do you want this to happen to her? Then showed a picture of a black guy, and then said "George Bush willl stop street crime."
        YEa no *****... The black man in America is something to be feared.
        I think they are feared. TO an extent. Society in AMerica expects every single black individual to be violent.

        That speaks a lot about American society.

        Thus I'm not surprised that America isn't comfortable with globalization even if the benefits outweigh the cost.
    • ArtArthur, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Hey absolute power corrupts absolutely. Down with NAU
    • Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2It makes me want to pull my hair out and cry when people make a long drawn out statement about why it "makes sense" for something we're all opposed to , to happen. I am honestly so fed up with people like this. I just want safety and security and to be free from the collossal government tyranny already foisted upon us.

      People, if you think this is a good thing. I urge you to remember Hurricane Katrina. Now, imagine Hurricane Katrina, but on a global scale. And only one organization can help the dying and stranded people... Is the U.N

      Remember Kosovo
      Remember Kuwait
      Remember Iraq
      Remember Afghanistan
      Remember Uganda
      Remember Sudan
      Remember Sierra Leone
      Remember Central America

      ..Hell, Remember the World, because from their track record, it won't be around much longer.
    • bbear, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Dugg down for hippy talk.
  • PrivateGuy, on 10/10/2007, -10/+14OMG this has GOT to be stopped!
  • theNazz, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15Who is covering the registration and insurance for these drivers?
    • BeatnikDude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Registration? We don't need no stinkin registration!
    • D14852001neko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0They do so, the truck companies do so.
      • bugonmybumper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0ahhhh no they don't they are from another COUNTRY our rules don't apply
  • yomamaisfat, on 10/10/2007, -9/+17Saturday, Really? I guess a shipment of marijuana will make its way here by early Saturday morning. Anyway, the claim that this will help terrorists is pure Fox News *****.
    • Orlex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hey man, Canada is the worlds biggest pot country and we can already jump over the border, the shipments have been going in for years by that logic.
      • BeatnikDude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2My vote is for Canadian pot, sorry y'all but Mexican weed has a nickname... mexican.
        • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Canadian pot is crap.

          They lace it with some *****, or they just put dirt in it.
  • mrfreeziexp, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14"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.

    I just found Jimmy Hoffa!!
  • Lane, on 10/10/2007, -10/+35great so when does Mexico start paying to maintain our infrastructure?
    • jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -10/+6how about we desocialize the infrastructure so that the only people who pay for it are the people who use it
      • grimw, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9How about not?
        • jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3well if you like subsidies for the better off paid for by the poor then fine you can be for socialized roads, but most poor people do not have private transportation and are therefore paying taxes for things they aren't using and can't use
          • fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5They can see it if they look out the bus or train window....
          • jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+395% of our infrastructure goes towards roads and not public transportation. BTW public transportation is tolled via fares whereas roads are not.
      • TJATL, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2and maybe hire construction companies that have workers "working" instead of standing around? nonsense!
    • visability, on 10/10/2007, -6/+8When they pay tolls and buy fuel just like you do, dumb *****.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax#United_States_of_America
      • jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+51. most roads are socialized and not tolled.
        2. they will fill up in Mexico at the subsidized prices and minimize their gas bill if any in the U.S.
        • visability, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2great so when do those out-of-staters pay to maintain my state's infrastructure?
        • diggrim, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1do you have any idea how expensive gasoline is in Mexico? Try leaving the country for once...you might learn something.
    • ahac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It already does. For everything they import to the US they pay taxes and for everything they export from the US they pay taxes.
    • tehxen3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3US trucks will begin crossing into mexico too.
      God some people...
      • D14852001neko, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0They already do, since... forever...
    • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1why do they need to pay for our infrastructure.

      They sending in ***** goods, and services.

      my god wtf is wrong with diggers.

      do they even know what truckers do?

      Do they even know that without truckers the US economy can literally crumble...

      I'm serious.
      Without the logistics. How the hell would you get ***** to the US interior.

      BTW I live in oklahoma city so I will be seeing them knowing that we're "America's curve. "
  • bagelpirate, on 10/17/2007, -2/+14Looks like were going to have a lot more ditch weed.
  • tucsonsun13, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7I expect Baja Fresh, Chipotle, La Salsa, On the Border and every other American-Mexican restaurant to cut their prices if this is really such a big help.
  • Tabasco, on 10/10/2007, -12/+15Relax people, this isn't the end of the world.
    • Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4*explosions ring in the background*
      *bridges collapse*
      *bush sells out America's infrastructure*
      *corporations centralize and create supermonopolies around the world*
      *preparations for nuclear war begin*
      *troops mass on many national borders (not just iran)*
      *cia still running giant child kidnapping rings*
      *massive starvation and death occuring because someone who needs a dollar a week to live can't get it because the u.s. gave 100 billion to the mideast*


      Nope, just go back to sleep.
    • Insidious4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0http://thespinfactor.com/thetruth/2007/08/31/american-trucks-begin-crossing-border-saturday-now-gringos-terrorists-can-enter-mexico-too/

      The first American trucks will begin crossing the border, confirming deeply held fears that Mexican sovereignty has been lost. Terrorists were exclusive to the [United States] but now with the open borders, terrorists can come to Mexico too! How will we know if the truckers are American or Saudi terrorists? Do they look the same? I don't know..
  • martian, on 10/10/2007, -9/+20"Making it even easier for the terrorists"

    pfft.. alarmist
  • UtahApocalyse, on 10/10/2007, -15/+4this is *****. I wish I lived in san diego i would head to the border and shoot the first one I saw.
    • onewingedangel9, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Oh I see, shooting somebody isn't the problem, it's travelling to where you can shoot them.
    • Orlex, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0If you are so far away from them then why do you give a ***** anyway?
    • Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Thank God somebodies thinking like a true /f/'in patriot!
  • spyd3rweb, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24People whine and cry about trading with mexico so much, why dont you go whine and cry about Chinese products first. Or do what will influence the corporations most, stop buy ***** made outside the USA.
    • visability, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7If they did that then they'd have to get off their shiny manufactured in China computer and actually make an effort to change; it's just so much easier to cry about it on the internet while stuffing your face with Doritos
    • Orlex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4What I love is that people are complaining about the Mexicans when they aren't complaining about the fact that nobody really had a say in this. 4 more years!
    • Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1We hate them too....Don't worry
    • tehxen3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Whats wrong with buying Chinese products? Same people who whine about sending too little aid to poor countries complain when we legitimately lift millions of people from poverty with free trade.
      • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yea this will help boost Texas, and especially Oklahoma's economy.

        And a lot of other states in the southwest.
        I don't see what the problem is from an economic view point.

        But there has been a lot of anti mexican or anti hispanic view point lately.

        I'm not surprise. America is still filled with racist ***** that think they aren't but really are. But hwen you bring it upp they just accuse you of playing the race card.

        I can't wait to go to graduate school in Mcgill.

        Awayf rom you dumbass Americans.

        Then citizenship change.

        Yep.

        There are no perks to being an American unless you're white of course.
    • theinternot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1We would if America still made any products.
  • lostarchitect, on 10/10/2007, -14/+22What a bunch of racists. Stop bitching about how this helps "the terrorists" and figure out how to cure cancer, which kills more Americans every month than "the terrorists" could hope to in a lifetime.
    • p0s3r, on 10/10/2007, -15/+8Ahh, the racism card. The last resort argument for retards.
      • Bamborzled, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11Ahh, the retard card. The last resort argument for trolls.
        • lajaw, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Ahh, the troll card. The last resort argument for morons.
      • sspooner, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Don't worry, he doesn't even know what racism is. He's just heard the other kids say it at school.
    • siszam, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10This isn't racist. It isn't racist to be upset that Americans will lose more jobs, our roads will be less safe, cursory inspections will allow more drugs and more illegals in.......there is a long list of reasons to be against this. You can't possibly be so ignorant that you think all Hispanics support this. My family is Hispanic and we are against illegals and against letting Mexican trucks in the U.S. They've practically ruined our economy now. Our crazy leaders and the governments passive compliance with Mexico is going to be the downfall of American.
      • techweenie1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4I'm so glad that a Hispanic person is here speaking out against this, thank you!! I'm so sick of people yelling racist because people like myself want to preserve what made America great.
        • ahac, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4And what is that? Being a closed society and not allowing any foreign competition?
          I though that was the great North Korea.
        • techweenie1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2No jackass, a society that enforces laws (including immigration, not the chaos we currently have), assimilation, a united tongue (ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!), and the opportunity to succeed (not socialistic rape the hand that feeds you compassion)...you know all the ***** that has made immigration successful into creating an integrated society for...I don't know what the last ***** 400 years you smug bastard.
        • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2techweenie.

          African Americans aren't assimilated into mainstream American society. Do you want them to because you might hear a lot of them say go ***** yourself. Of course once you do find that one black person with low self esteem that sucks complete white dick because they have some form of self hatred, and yes this does plague the black community.
          Then you can use that one person as the poster child of the black community.

          Point being said the ideology of what we call now America wasn't built around forcing people to assimilate. IT wa sbuilt around the concept of them picking up the best of our customs, and us taking in the best of their customs.
          That is completely different from assimilation because with assimilation you have one culture.

          When in fact in America you have multiple cultures.

          African American cultures(yea it varies especially in the Carolina's with the gullah culture).
          White American Culture
          Suburbia.
          Asian American cultures
          European cultures
          NAtive American cultures
          LAtin AMerican cultures.
          Even middle eastern cultures.

          This is what makes America great. The diversity mate. I wouldn't want it any other way.
          Though the majority of White Americans want it one way or no way.

          And that usually equates treating a group of people like *****.

      • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2it is ***** racist.

        What the ***** is wrong with Mexican truckers being able to haul in goods to US cities, and vice versa. Watch you're bitching out the mouth, and taking the benefits up your ass.

        America is a ***** super power, and better yet. what compliance with Mexico?

        Dude there is so much benefit to this I can't even find the words to express this.

        I mean you have other competitors on the global market that is rivaling the US right now.

        The EU economic block, and China.

        This can only help us.

        I say you bitch about it. Then there is no other reason besides the fact that they're mexican. YOu wouldn't bitch if it was CAnadian truckers hauling ***** to the US.

  • WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3Great News -- if you like f**kin' heroin.
    (/sarcasm)
  • wtbuser, on 10/10/2007, -10/+5Can't wait for Ron Paul to put troops on the border.
    • visability, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9I can't wait for millions to die from their own drinking water and medicine after the FDA and EPA are dismantled, hell yeah ron paul 2008
    • Orlex, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5"And little did President Paul know, that he had put the troops at the wrong border. His eyes fill with tears as they glisten with the reflection of the burning white house as Canadian troops stumble drunkenly over the border."
  • SheilaNoya, on 10/10/2007, -6/+25Rusty old trucks in disrepair, drivers that can't read signs written in English, no insurance, etc. Is this really what we need for our businesses to be more profitable? What about the safety of our citizens?
    • tumama, on 10/10/2007, -9/+10I don´t know what is bigger in some of you the racism or the ignorance...
      You should travel more and watch less tv
      1) what you see on the border is NOT the whole enchilada, México is much more.
      2) the problems of your country do not come from abroad. USA will fail as the Roman empire or the USSR not because what is outside will finish because what is INSIDE
      • EuphopiaB, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3OIC, because we will fail from the inside, it is therefore OK for contributions to be made to our failing from the outside.
        What your saying is on the grounds of saying a cancer patient shouldn't get their limbs re-attached when they get cut off because hey, they are going to die anyways.
      • derforseti, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1While it might seem like racism, Mexican trucks *are* known for being in bad repair.
      • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1How is trading goods with another country for the economic benefits going to contribute to US's fall?

        I don't understand it.
        Tumama is correct though. There is so much racism within the statement.

        And also most Americans believe TV to be true. Americans have a false reality that surrounds them, and they get it pounded into their heads so much so that it becomes fact to them.

        This is a very bad thing.
        Because then you are now a society that is easily manipulated to believe anything.

        Which is why the little kids in Istanbul have a great time when they see Americans.

        "hey AMericans we can rip them off woot!!"
        Mexico is a beautiful country but of course this involves traveling further south meaning you must pass through their ***** states that border the US, and then you will see a country of beauty.

        The problem with Mexico is that there is a lot of corruption. If mexico didn't have it. YOu would see a completely different mexico than the one you know of today.

    • santaclaws, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2Yeah, those dang Mexican truck drivers like to eat white babies, too. My sister's manager's cousin had her babies stolen by Mexican truck drivers, and their bones were found by the river two days later, next to a bunch of empty bean tins. Goddang terrorists.
    • tubspray1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1your mama wetback. you may be right wetback. it may fail from the inside, only because of all the illegal Mexicans such as your self.
  • ASHTONZANECKI, on 10/10/2007, -12/+7Wow, I've never heard of an NAU, but I love it. Bringing relationships closer between bitter countries.
  • Wxndel, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Who'll drive those trucks back to Mexico? I suppose we can ship them on flatbeds rail cars.
  • TJATL, on 10/10/2007, -6/+7What they didn't tell you is that the trucks are full of immigrants and at truck stops they do a mexican fire drill.
  • Jalh, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6why can the usa trucks go to mexico and the mexicans can gro to usa ?
    • tubspray1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Cause no one wants to stay in mexico. get it!
  • DreamVsPs2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9I live in Arizona and I often go to Mexcio on Vacation. When I go back, they never ask me or anyone else for passports.
    • ArtArthur, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4Brought to you by current and former CFR card caring members of our congress. Its trendy these days to commit treason. If you want more of this activity just vote for whoever the Lame Stream Media tells you to. Americans are just plumb dumb matrix-ed zombies. You folks need to do some cranial extraction and Vote For Ron Paul.
      • Bamborzled, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Great job on telling people to vote for Ron Paul like plumb dumb Matrixized zombies!
    • blackjack75, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6That's because you are "european" looking I guess. I am pretty sure it's harder for the mexicans to play the "coming back from vacation" trick.
    • pcore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah if you look Mexican they ask you certain questions in English.
    • sflore8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Yep, if you look Mexican, poor, scared etc.. they stop you and question you.
  • FrameShift, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17"Making it even easier for the terrorists."
    Oh, aye, we terrorists have been camping in Mexico waiting for this to happen, so we can bomb the San Diego Sea World. We heard that the Canada/Wisconsin border was heavily fortified with checkpoints all over. Praise Allah we didn't go that route.

    I am, however, curious as to how this will affect illegal immigration.
    • Orlex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0You had me with the heavily fortified Canadian border, but the Allah drop sealed the deal.
    • blackjack75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Simple: it won't. People who really want to go work in the U.S. will. It was already pretty hard before you know. It's not just about crossing the frontier, but also managing to make money once on the other side. You can open the frontiers, not all the mexican population is willing to move in to cut your flowers.
      • happytron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Well, this particular arrangement is probably too small have an appreciable affect on illegal immigration. But in a broader sense, liberalizing trade between Mexico and the US will certainly improve Mexico's economy, which in the long run is the only sustainable solution for illegal immigration.
        • lajaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I believe those trucks will be carrying Chinese goods, not Mexican goods. Even the Mexicans cannot compete with cheap Chinese goods.
  • ArthurSucks, on 10/10/2007, -8/+9Mexico is what Japan was in the 50s, China in the 60s, and Thailand in the 80s. They are learning to make our goods faster and cheaper than we can, and get it hear faster than the eastern countries.
    • ArtArthur, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1U suck Herkmyer
    • punx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Have to digg you down for "and get it hear faster", what the *****, you didn't finish first grade? Try HERE.
  • pingomx, on 10/10/2007, -6/+12Everybody is talking about the Mexican trucks going to the US side, but it will be the same number and kind of trucks that will be going down to the Mexican side, that's called trade, and this agreement was not signed by this government but by the Clinton's. This is for helping both sides commerce.
    • BeatnikDude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If you have been following this issue US trucks CAN go across the border but DON'T because of the pay. The same reason we have people with no labor or environmental rights coming up here, it's cheaper from Mexico.
    • lajaw, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1What are we sending to Mexico? Used cars and tractors...............that were imported from abroad to begin with.
      I say on their backload, let's fill 'em up with wetbacks and scratchbacks (those that crawled under the fence as opposed to swimming the river).
  • FrameShift, on 10/10/2007, -9/+8Almost forgot. Is anyone pleased with the prospect of sharing the road with Mexican truck drivers? I would feel incredibly not safe out there, and the San Diego freeways are bad enough.
    • specialK16, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3May I ask, where exactly does that judging comes from? Now, why are mexicans suddenly bad drivers?
    • santaclaws, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Mexican terrorists can't drive. They weren't even interested in learning how to steer. They just want to press the gas and slam their trucks into your childrens' schoolyards and kill them. These mexican truck drivers are going to kill the next generation of Americans. Ron Paul '08!!
    • quaxon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1to be honest im more worried about the redneck drivers that pull all-nighters to here from the mid-west or the south and they are up for two days on meth with their sister riding next to them giving road head and every time the drive by they look into my car and give my girl the creepy eye.
      • lajaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You must be a blue-blood Damn yankee........
    • FrameShift, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Mexican roads are unsafe, the entire country has is terribly regulated, and these truck drivers aren't licensed by the California DMV.
      • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1the California DMV is no different...

        They let dumb ***** truck drivers onto the roads on a daily basis.

        Any DMV in any state really if you want to get broad with this.

        Take a drive on the eastern coast of the US, and you will find out that truck drivers will run you off the road just for the hell of it. Oh and don't be black if you're driving through Mississippi or you will find yourself rear ended by a truck.
  • 55sams, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Most of the Mexican motor carriers already approved for entry into the USA, are owned by USA motor carriers.
  • p0s3r, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11The real question is is mexico allowing our trucks into their country. If not, congratulations, k street just ***** us over again.
    • pcore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Sometimes Mexico allows anyone to enter Mexico without inspection so I wouldn't be surprised if they do allow U.S. trucks into Mexico.
    • busterbros, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The real answer is yes.
    • BeatnikDude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1They DO allow US truck in Mexico but there is not alot of reasons like $ for an American truck driver to NOT go there. Why do you think they are coming this way, cause they are cheap.
  • RegalGSX, on 10/10/2007, -12/+7Mexican trucks are unsafe and dirty. They will carry thousands of illegal immigrants and drugs across the border. U.S. truck drivers will lose jobs.
    • blackjack75, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3US truck drivers have never been immigrant. They have been dropped here by God and have always been here.
    • Orlex, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0Women and children will be raped, it will pave way for bodysnatchers and Umbrella Viruses. Your post gave me the mental image of a bunch of mexicans clinging to the undercarriage of a truck with mexican'ts falling off every couple of miles. Seriously stop being so afraid of change, do you even live anywhere near San Diego where this will affect things?
      • siszam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I live in San Diego and I'm sick of bodies being found in trunks and people being shot in my neighborhood. And I live in a nice neighborhood. I can't even go walking. The illegals and gangs have ruined many states. I guess you don't live here and you sure as heck don't have children trying to learn from Spanglish speaking teachers or you would know that.
        • EuphopiaB, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I live in Bakersfield, and agree whole-heartedly.
          The people working at Del Taco here barely understand English. The Mexicans account for a huge percentage of the crime here, and frankly I am sick of it, and even more sick of people that don't know what is going on here talking like we can exist in some idealistic harmony with the world and no borders.
  • thrallie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10I live in San Diego..NBC San Diego is pretty good. all I have to say..

    Oh, and ***** the North American Union. I don't want other countries laws.
    • Orlex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Hey I live in Canada and no matter how bad we ***** up we can't get the death penalty, and we can drink 2 years before you can. You sure you don't wanna share laws?
      • happytron, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I read recently that James Randi chose to become a US citizen after catching the RCMP rifling through his stuff with neither probable cause nor a warrant. That said, I'll pass.
  • pyrophire, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Mexican trucks have been driving in our city for a few years now. I live in El Paso and we border with Juarez Mexico, they've been using semi trucks in our city for years so this is nothing new
  • gingerboyiv, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8*****.
  • Sithseth, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9For all those worried about terrorism, let me just say that it's complete bull *****. The fact that our media is even able to talk about the war in Iraq, and other nation security issues without being penalized some how by the government is a tall tale sign that it's something that the government wants us too believe in! To worry more about terrorism then over the factors of losing our rights, or giving more money to our already elite class is what we should be fearing!

    We are Civilians of the free world, not idiotic "patriots" of the United States!
    We must fight for our equality amongst the world, and the world must do the same. Come on people!
  • captaindoobers, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6"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.

    Jimmy Hoffa?!?!
    • aurorous, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The current president of the teamsters is Jimmy P Hoffa the son of famously missing James R Hoffa.
  • raftytaffy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9I feel more drugs hitting the streets and their price going down once this goes into effect lol.
    • Coinspinner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Good, i'm tired of paying $120/oz.
    • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1nope it'll still be illegal thus the prices might go up due to increase risk of selling those drugs(gang violence, more police ops, etc).
  • ccL1, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10For those of you who are afraid of Mexican trucks coming into the US, can you tell me why? Canadian trucks have been coming into the US for years. This project will be a green light no matter what the outcome of the trial is. Chinese exporters are salivating at this.

    For those of you who don't know, google "Lazaro Cardenas and China". This Mexican truck issue is one part of a vast super-project to speed up and greatly expand Asian exports to the US mainland, through Mexican seaports and Mexican truckers. Mexican seaports will be used, because LA and Long Beach have highly expensive unionized labour and are already overcapacity (2 week backlogs). Mexican truckers will be used, because they're cheaper than American truckers.

    Keep your eye out for Lazaro Cardenas. It's going to be a big issue in the next decade or two.
    • aurorous, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Because Mexican trucks will not have to meet the same emissions and safety standards as American trucks. Canadian trucks are subject to similar laws in their own native Canada and like American trucks have to meet far stricter standards which is why they're more expensive to run. American (and Canadian) companies aren't going to be able to compete unless they move down to Mexico and adopt the same practices. as a bonus to that they won't be subject to our labor laws anymore and truck driving will become a minimum wage job.

      You'd think you wouldn't be able to outsource truck driving. But our greedy corporate overlords found a way
    • Rustbelt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Canadian trucks have similar safety regulations to America. The hours of service regulations are also similar.
  • tumama, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2will the US drivers speak Spanish?
    wait!!... will the US drivers speak english?
    will the US drivers know how to drive with the Mexican system?
  • tumama, on 10/10/2007, -10/+10I don´t know what is bigger in some of you the racism or the ignorance...
    You should travel more and watch less tv
    1) what you see on the border is NOT the whole enchilada, México is much more.
    2) the problems of your country do not come from abroad. USA will fail as the Roman empire or the USSR not because what is outside will finish because what is INSIDE
    • Rustbelt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Oh be quiet. Wanting to save the jobs of American truck drivers is not ignorant or racist.
  • ArtArthur, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4This event is brought to you by current and former CFR card caring members of our government. Hope you enjoy it. By the way please keep voting the way the lame / main stream media tells you to so we can continue to enjoy all the benefits of the treasonous activity. Americans are plumb dumb matrix-ed zombies. God help us all ! So Herkmyer and arthursucks you little Brown Shirt Ron Paul trolls eat this one and enjoy. The only thing good that is going to come out of this is more support for Ron Paul ! His border plan is looking real good about right now.
  • Jolus, on 10/10/2007, -9/+11If you really think that Mexican trucks are unsafe and dirty, that are pulled by mules and that will be delivering illegal immigrants all over the country, you are even more ignorants that I've ever thought. Mexican trucks are just as good as the ones from USA or Canada, in fact, almost all of them are bought from USA companies, so if you say that they're nothing but garbage, I must say, "sorry, that's what we got from dealing with you people".
    • sflore8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Most people think Mexico is a Third World Country with no cars and paved streets.
    • neoblaque, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Jolus - Go hang out at the border sometime, I have and the trucks that come from Mexico to do deliveries in the Texas border towns are not even close to the safety levels that US truckers must adhere to.
    • Rustbelt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Mexican trucks are not maintained as well as their American counterparts. They are unsafe and dirty. By the way, who is making sure the drivers read and speak enough English to function? This won't take long to backfire.
    • jrc15859, on 12/16/2007, -0/+0 Well smart one yes they do buy there trucks from american companies, a couple companies sold the trucks to Mexica, that was after they had over a million miles on them and no way could pass an inspection here in the U.S. then they sent them there because they had no safety rules and enviromental rules.
  • UWake911, on 10/10/2007, -5/+10Are the American Truckies PUSSIES? Aren't they going to block the roads to stop this attack on their Nation? Even the French have more guts to stop trash like this.
    • Coinspinner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Sure they can, but we'll replace them all with Mexican drivers if they do something stupid like that.
    • thurows, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1They should.
  • benjpw, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9WELCOME TO CAPITALISM.
    • brooke415, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3supply side, deregulated, rampant, predatory, les affairs, trickle down, crony capitalism? no thanks. How about some regulated, demand side, tariff based, triple bottom line, healthy capitalism so we can all sit at the table and no one is on the menu? How about some economic freedom and fairness for everyone? How about you stop buying into the propaganda, watch as many documentaries as you possibly can and let the free, independent thinkers fix everything?

      Read Confessions of an Economic Hitman by http://JohnPerkins.org for a true insiders story of how Economic terrorism works.

      http://Permatopica.com
      • happytron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0You sound sarcastic, but sometimes its hard to tell.
      • tehxen3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Tariffs and regulation are the opposite of economic freedom FYI.
        • kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1 please go read up on the gilded age.
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