Posted by
84rules on Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:00:55 PM
This is unbelieveable! How can the Bush Administration allow this to happen? This is a disaster waiting to happen and the President is inviting it in!
From NBCSanDiego.com:
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.
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.
"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.
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Not to mention the fact that groups like Al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad and many others would love to use this particular avenue of approach to smuggle in terrorists, high explosives, chemical weapons or maybe even a nuke!
Here's hoping that the injunction goes through and we'll have some time to spread the word to concerned citizens about this security nightmare and bring it to a halt.
But until then, tell everyone you know about it and do everything you can think of to get the word out that our border security is being completely compromised. Call your Congressional Respresentatives and ask them to do something to put a stop to this lunatic idiocy!
You can access the complete article on-line here:
Union: Mexican Trucks Begin Crossing Border Saturday
NBCSanDiego.com with AP
August 29, 2007