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Independent truckers see end of the road
2008-03-01 15:26:00 Trucker Robert Griffith is on the road three weeks out of four, pulling oversize loads like crane booms, railroad ties and air conditioning ducts. One of his biggest worries: How he’ll find the money to buy his daughter a prom dress. As the cost of diesel doubled over the last four years, his take-home pay has ... More About: Independent , Road , Truckers , The Road
NAFTA a success, It is time to improve on that success.
2008-03-01 15:14:00 MEXICO CITY ? U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said Wednesday that NAFTA has been a boon for the United States, Mexico and Canada, but the three signatory countries should help small Mexican farmers who have suffered from the pact.When the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect in 1994, it contained a provision letting ... More About: Time , Success , Improve
Mexican Congress approves judicial reforms but refuses to allow warrantless
2008-02-27 18:27:00 Mexico’s lower house of Congress on Tuesday approved a sweeping judicial reform that would introduce public, oral trials and guarantee the presumption of innocence, but lawmakers deleted a proposal to allow police to search homes without a warrant.In the 462-6 vote with two abstentions, legislators approved the reform bill, which would also allow information from ... More About: Mexico , Mexican , Reform , Judicial
FBI & DHS raids on Swift Transportation - Day 2
2008-02-27 15:28:00 The day after a multi agency raid on Swift Transportation offices in Memphis and Millington Tennessee, authorities are keeping quiet on the reason for the raids and Swift management are doing the monkey dance proclaiming their innocence of any wrongdoing. Seven federal agencies and the Tennessee Highway Patrol raided Swift Transportation’s terminal operations in Memphis and ...
Cd Juarez Police find another mass grave in residential area
2008-02-27 04:31:00 MEXICO CITY? Investigators found parts from at least eight bodies in a series of backyard pits at a house in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso , prosecutors said on Tuesday. The Attorney General’s Office did not say how the victims died or who is believed to have buried their remains, but it did note ... More About: Murder , Residential , Police , Find
The waits will be longer - Texas DPS threatens to disrupt border commerce
2008-02-26 17:55:00 Texas Department of Public Safety Inspectors announced today their plans to cause a total disruption of border commerce in the Laredo sector Texas DPS along with USDOT and FMCSA have been handing out pamphlets announcing their intentions of turning back at the border, any transfer driver who can not or will not respond to their questions ... More About: English , Texas , Commerce , Border Crossing
Murder trial begins in AZ for illegal immigrant shooting
2008-02-26 14:59:00 A murder trial tinged with international controversy that begins this week will determine whether a U.S. Border Patrol agent was justified in shooting an illegal immigrant near the Mexican border. Jury selection will start Tuesday in federal court in the case of Agent Nicholas Corbett, who is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide in ... More About: Murder , Trial , Shooting , Illegal , Immigrant
The price we pay for our lies!
2008-02-22 02:12:00 For a year, OOIDA, as well as the Teamsters, has been filling the media with gross exaggerations, misrepresentation of facts and twisting the numbers to make them fit their agenda. Well, it’s payback time, and boy, are they whining! As they say, you play, you pay! Looks like OOIDA has gotten themselves blacklisted by the ... More About: Opinions , Price , Lies
CBP officers seize $1.8 million in drugs
2008-02-20 15:57:00 LAREDO ? U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized $1.8 million in cocaine and marijuana in three separate incidents recently, according to a news release from the agency. The largest seizure occurred Feb. 17, at the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge when a drug dog reacted to the odor of narcotics emanating from the rear rocker panel area ... More About: Drugs , Border Crossing , Million , Officers
5 arrested in Nuevo Laredo kidnap attempt
2008-02-19 20:08:00 NUEVO LAREDO - Kidnappers demanding a $10 million ransom for the release of a Dallas man were captured by city police Sunday.The victim, Sergio Diaz de Leon Rivera, was rescued after family members called police to tell of the ransom demand. The five suspects snatched Diaz de Leon Rivera in the downtown historical district Saturday. The ... More About: Arrested , Missing , Borderlands , Laredo , Nuevo Laredo
Mexican carriers with USDOT Numbers
2008-02-19 18:13:00 I’ve always said that the entire debate is an exercise in gross stupidity and I continue to maintain that position. Teamster, OOIDA, Public Citizen and other fringe “safety” groups continue to oppose 12 Mexican carriers putting 54 well maintained trucks on the highways of the US. We’ve also made mention of the estimated 1000 Mexican carriers who ... More About: Carriers , Numbers
Safety compliance of Cross Border program participants
2008-02-19 17:34:00 FMCSA’s SAFESTAT database gives a comprehensive look at inspection results of all motor carriers authorized to operate in the United States. We decided to take a look and see how the Mexican carriers enrolled in the cross border program were doing to date, and the results showed no surprises. To the contrary, it appears enforcement ... More About: Safety , Cross , Program , Compliance
$1.2 billion fence adds little or no security
2008-02-11 04:42:00 Luis Alberto Urrea The Border Patrol agent was a 30-year veteran. He walked me across a patch of desolation to the Mexican border. There was no border fence there yet. Just Arizona desert, a dusty dry creekbed, and Mexican desert beyond, indistinguishable from the United States. If you want to hear philosophical reflections from an agent, you ... More About: Security , Fence , Billion
Arms cache in Miguel Aleman, biggest seizure in decades
2008-02-09 16:19:00 MONTERREY, Mexico ? A huge weapons cache found in a ranch building near the Texas border this week was the nation’s single largest weapons bust in 20 years, said the federal attorney general’s office, or PGR, in a statement Friday. A Mexican army unit found the stockpile, which included 89 assault rifles and more ... More About: Hummer , Aleman , Arms , Cache , Land Rover
Disorder in the Court - 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
2008-02-09 14:14:00 With Tuesday being the day oral arguments are scheduled to be held in case 07-73415 (Sierra Club v FMCSA) some interesting information surfaced about the Court this case is assigned to. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has the most decisions overturned of any Court in the Federal Judiciary. Of course, this can work to both sides ... More About: Supreme Court , Opinions
Mexico gunrunning to be probed
2008-02-09 03:03:00 WASHINGTON ? A congressional review of U.S. law enforcement efforts to halt gun trafficking into Mexico was ordered Thursday by a House panel overseeing a $1.4 billion Bush administration plan to fight international narcotics cartels. The review of U.S. law enforcement efforts to stop gun running along the 2,000-mile border, particularly in high-traffic corridors ...
TRINITY INDUSTRIES DE MEXICO drops from Cross Border program
2008-02-09 02:50:00 The first company to remove itself from the Cross Border Program was TRINITY INDUSTRIES DE MEXICO SA de C V the Mexican subsidiary of Trinity Industries with worldwide headquarters in Dallas Texas. Leonel Olivares, terminal manager at Trinity Industries in Eagle Pass, Texas, said its Mexican affiliate ?never had intentions of the drivers actually ... More About: Mexico
Felipe Calderon foresees a ?friendlier? US in 2009
2008-02-08 20:18:00 "It seems to me that the most radical and anti-immigrant candidates have been left behind and have been put in their place by their own electorate," Calderon said. More About: Politics , Felipe Calderon , Nationalism , Felipe
Mexico extradites corrupt former US Border Patrol Agent!
2008-02-01 00:17:00 MEXICO CITY .- The government of Mexico extradited to the United States, an agent of the United States Border Patrol , accused of collaborating with drug traffickers for the entry of Mexican drug shipments into the United States through El Paso, Texas. With the surrender of former CBP agent Arturo Arzate Jr.. aka “Tury”, this brings ... More About: Agent , Corruption , Extradition
Mexican Farmers march on Mexico City to protest NAFTA
2008-01-31 23:43:00 Thousands of Mexican farmers, some riding tractors and herding cows, flooded the capital Thursday to demand government protection against cheap U.S. imports.Trade barriers under the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, were lifted in January, opening Mexico for the first time to tariff-free U.S. exports of traditional food like corn and beans. Mexican farmers complain ... More About: City , Protest , Mexico City
New Border crossing rules in effect today.
2008-01-31 21:54:00 New rules for the types of identification U.S. citizens must present to enter the country go into effect today, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said ? A U.S. passport OR ? A trusted traveler card such as NEXUS, SENTRI or FAST Those without a passport must provide a valid driver?s license or military ID plus one of the following: ? U.S. ... More About: Security , Today , Rules , Border Crossing , Effect
A look at various Mexican trucking laws and regs!
2008-01-30 03:56:00 I’ve been thinking about translating various laws and regulations governing Mexican commercial carriers for some time, and I still may do it, but for now, I’ll point ya’ll towards the information and you can translate it yourself. Not that I expect many to let the facts get in the way of their ... More About: Laws , Trucking
Mexican police still patrolling without guns
2008-01-29 19:12:00 CIUDAD MIGUEL ALEMÁN, MEXICO ? Police in five Tamaulipas border cities continued to patrol the streets Monday without service weapons, nearly a week after military forces confiscated them in a series of surprise raids. But officers in Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo and Valle Hermoso have managed to maintain the peace armed only with nightsticks ... More About: Security , Guns , Mexican , Borderlands
Only 2 out of 1600 Police still under investigation
2008-01-27 20:51:00 Just two of some 1,600 police officers investigated after the army raided police stations in five border cities last week are being subjected to “a criminal process,” the Tamaulipas state government said. Most of the officers were back on the job Saturday. The fate of the two officers was unclear Saturday as city, state and ... More About: Police , Investigation
Mexican cartels feeling the pressure
2008-01-27 15:40:00 "There will be no retreat. We are not going to take a step back. The fight against crime is going to to be permanent, systematic." More About: Mexican , Corruption , Borderlands , Feeling , Cartels
Current HOS to stand - DC Circuit Court of Appeals denies motion to vacate!
2008-01-26 05:16:00 A motion asking a federal court to force the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to eliminate the 11-hour driving limit and the optional 34-hour restart provision was denied Wednesday, Jan. 23.The motion was filed Dec. 19, 2007, with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by Public Citizen, Citizens for Reliable ... More About: Current , Motion , Stand
Calm prevails - Military still in control of the bordertowns
2008-01-25 16:07:00 NUEVO LAREDO - The people of the Mexican cities along the Texas border have not been left unprotected in the wake of the disarming of more than 1,000 municipal police officers earlier this week, officials said Thursday.All of the city police are reporting to their respective bases and some are assigned to patrols “on foot ... More About: Military , Control , Borderlands , Nuevo Laredo , Calm
Suspect apprehended in death of Border Patrol Agent
2008-01-24 15:48:00 Mexican authorities said Wednesday they had arrested a man in northern Mexico in the weekend killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar. Jesus Navarro Montes, 22, was arrested in the northern state of Sonora on Wednesday, said a spokesman for Mexico’s federal Attorney General’s office who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department ... More About: Agent , Death , Suspect
Tancredo using death of Border Patrol agent to push agenda
2008-01-24 15:37:00 Tancredo should be ashamed of using the death of this agent to push forward his on short sighted agenda. At least he's out of the field for the White House. Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson also. More About: Agent , Death , Border Patrol , Agenda , Tancredo
Mexico Crackdown - Federal forces in control of border
More articles from this author:2008-01-23 17:00:00 They have us (stunned). If they know who to take, then they should fulfill their responsibility," said one officer, who asked not to be identified. "They have lists. They have been working for some time on gathering intelligence and they know the bad officers." More About: Breaking News , Mexico , Corruption , Control , Forces 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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