9-7-2007 News Update
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MEXICAN TRUCKS GEARED UP TO CROSS U.S. BORDER
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., said the Bush administration's "stealth plan" to
allow Mexican long-haul rigs to run on roads throughout the United States is being
launched. "The Bush administration has indicated to me that on September 7th they
will open the U.S. border to 100 Mexican-domiciled trucking companies," DeFazio said.
"This is a sad day for America."
DeFazio's anger was evident in his statement. "This administration is hell-bent on
opening our borders, "but has failed to require that Mexican drivers and trucks meet
the same safety and security standards as U.S. drivers and trucks."
Executive Vice President Todd Spencer of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers
Association said earlier the White House has pursued a "stealth strategy" in
launching the Department of Transportation's Mexican truck demonstration project. "We
are confident that the White House decided long ago every aspect of how up to 100 Mexican
trucking companies are going to be allowed to run their long-haul rigs anywhere in the
United States," Spencer said, "but the American public and Congress are being
intentionally kept in the dark."
Statements by Mexican Transportation Secretary Luis Tellez and reports in Spanish on the
Mexican government's transportation department website announced that 37 Mexican trucking
companies had satisfactorily met the DOT requirements for participating in the test and
the start date was scheduled to be Sept. 1.
Spencer charged the White House has intentionally pursued a strategy designed to keep the
Mexican truck demonstration project "below the radar," and avoid a public outcry
on talk radio and the Internet such as occurred over the nomination of Harriet Miers to
the Supreme Court, with Dubai Ports, and again with President Bush's two failed attempts
to jam a comprehensive immigration reform bill through the Senate.
"The White House does a much better job keeping Mexico informed than the U.S. public
or Congress," Spencer said pointedly. "Since March, we have credible reports
that the Bush administration has been telling groups in Mexico that the one-year pilot
program is merely a formality. Bush administration officials are willing to say in Mexico
that once the one year had elapsed, the border would be wide open to all Mexican
trucks."
Spencer charged the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is "making up the
rules as they go along" for exactly how the Mexican truck demonstration project would
be launched, operated, or evaluated.
"There's no doubt in my mind that the Bush administration is trying to manage the
news so the Mexican truck issue does not explode on the American public like Dubai Ports
or the Kennedy-McCain comprehensive immigration reform bill did," Spencer said.
"The White House spin never stops."
"Why is the Bush administration preparing to issue visas to the Mexican drivers for
six months?" Spencer asked. "This is the first guest worker program, whether the
White House wants to admit it or not. Canadian drivers don't have to have visas, so why
would a Mexican driver have to have a visa, especially a visa valid for six months?"
8-31-2007 News
Alert: The Teamsters Union said today it has been told by officials in the Transportation
Department's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that the first Mexican trucks
could come across the border as soon as Saturday unless Congress gets involved.
The union said Thursday 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.
"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.
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