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Teamsters? Hoffa leads protectionist border rally protesting trucking progr
2007-12-07 10:17:00 U.S. Department of Transportation spokeswoman Melissa Mazzella-DeLaney, who was at the rally, said union protectionism is the real force behind opposition and that Hoffa does not have the facts to back up his claims of unsafe trucks and drivers. More About: Leads , Rally , Trucking , Teamsters , Protectionist
OOIDA - Continuing to misrepresent the facts about Cross Border Trucking
2007-12-07 10:01:00 After a lull in the campaign of misinformation being thrown about by OOIDA and it’s leadership <sic>, suddenly more “facts” emerge in their efforts to derail the Cross Border Truck Program. I say “facts”, because what they are reporting could not be further from the truth. World Net Daily, scraping a piece from the in-house rag ... More About: Facts , Mexico , Trucking , Conti
K-Paz De La Sierra Singer Sergio Gomez Murdered
2007-12-04 17:39:00 The lead singer of well-known Mexican band K-Paz de la Sierra was abducted and strangled to death, adding to a list of performers killed in a violent crime wave. Sergio Gomez , whose group had close ties to Chicago, and two music promoters, were seized by armed men in the western Mexican state of Michoacan in the ... More About: Singer
Singer shot to death after surgery in Matamoros ER
2007-12-04 14:35:00 MEXICO CITY ? Apart from the police and narco-gangsters, few groups have suffered more in Mexico’s brutal drug wars than the singers whose music often chronicles the carnage. The latest casualty appears to be Zayda Peņa, 28, a singer who was shot dead Saturday in a hospital emergency room in the city of Matamoros, across the ... More About: Surgery , Death , Shot , Singer , Urge
Former mayor of Rio Bravo, 2 AFI Agents assassinated [Graphic Images]
2007-12-01 15:56:00 Editor’s Note: Get this out there before Glenn Beck and other’s put their hate spin on it. Another honest politician gunned down! RIO BRAVO, Mexico ? A memorial of flowers and candles took up yards of sidewalk Friday near the bullet-riddled cafeteria where a former mayor who had promised to rid this city of drug ... More About: Agents , Images , Bravo , Graphic , Mayor
Ramos & Campeon - Loya Spin machine going ?balls to the wall?!
2007-12-01 02:57:00 The spin machine of Fred Loya, father in law of convicted felon and former Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos is kicking into high gear as the time nears Monday for the appeal of their conviction to be heard before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. This would be a non issue and these ... More About: Machine , Wall , Balls , Spin
As expected, Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, denied bail!
2007-11-30 00:31:00 Months after being shot by a pair of U.S. Border Patrol agents, an admitted Mexican drug smuggler was back in the United States driving loads of marijuana, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency investigator said Thursday. DEA Agent Robert Holguin testified at a bond hearing that Osvaldo Aldrete Davila , the smuggler shot during a failed smuggling attempt ... More About: Ramos
Hating Mexicans: The New American Past Time
2007-11-28 16:45:00 I ran across an excellent Discourse this morning regarding our attitude towards Mexicans and anything perceived to be hispanic. The author, a Professor at a midwestern college, gives an excellent history of bigotry and racism against those different from us through history. He also points our and gives examples of the racist drivel being spewed by ... More About: Time , American , Past
California truckers busted hauling marijuana in semi
2007-11-28 16:15:00 Editor’s Note: Let’s see! A wop and a rag head! How about that! No mention of a Mexican trucker here! The Trucker - Two California truckers face felony drug charges alleging they had more than a half-ton of marijuana stashed amid a load of fresh tomatoes in their semitrailer truck. Marco Corzo, 54, and Gurmit ... More About: Wisconsin , Semi , Busted , Marijuana
1.400 pound shipment of pot seized!
2007-11-28 16:09:00 Editor’s Note: Business as usual and absolutely nothing to do with the cross border issue. It show ICE and CBP are on the ball as usual! Maybe it is time to decriminalize the shit and put these guys out of business. But then, that would be too simple a solution. Two brothers from Mexico were arrested ... More About: Arizona , Pound
Ruben Navarrette - A fair deal for Mexico?s truckers
2007-11-28 02:44:00 Editors Note: Relevant then, even more so now. I’ve hit a fork in the road in my thinking concerning the unrelenting campaign by the Teamsters to deny Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways. On the one hand, I recognize that these efforts are deplorable and destructive. They’ve tarnished the international reputation of the United States ... More About: Mexico , Fair , Deal , Truckers
Injecting Racism into the Immigration Debate
2007-11-28 00:59:00 I was reading an excellent article today in the San Antonio Express-News entitled Games put new spin on a hot topic. This subject dealt with several people who had developed board and video games in an attempt to give people some idea of what illegal immigrants face in day to day life. But perhaps the most ... More About: Immigration , Debate , Racism
Tancredo calls illegal immigration ?the ultimate issue?
2007-11-21 13:14:00 Editor’s Note: What a total no-nothing fear mongering moron! And the sad thing is, he will siphon off votes from those who deserve the Presidency! Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo asserted in Houston on Tuesday night that Iraq and illegal immigration are part of a single front in a war over the potential destruction ... More About: Illegal Immigration , Immigration , Calls , Ultimate , Illegal
Traditional Mexican business lunches becoming a thing of the past!
2007-11-21 06:23:00 MEXICO CITY ? The long Mexican business lunch, a tequila-fueled food orgy that could last past sundown, is on the demise in the capital as a new generation of clean-living executives cuts back on costs and time wasting.In an old habit as Mexican as mariachi, offices would empty for entire afternoons as employees packed into ... More About: Business , Culture , Past , Thing
Mexico City Cathedral closed after leftist invasion
2007-11-21 06:16:00 ?The cathedral is state property, but as a religious association we have the right to determine what religious rites are held there,? he said. ?And because the site was profaned, we can declare the suspension of the rites.? More About: Mexico , City , Mexico City , Invasion , Cathedral
FMCSA files response to Mexican truck suit in 9th Circuit
2007-11-21 05:39:00 SAN FRANCISCO ? The Department of Transportation on Monday filed its response to petitions seeking to halt the NAFTA cross-border trucking demonstration program with Mexico. In its response, DOT basically argues that neither the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) nor the Sierra Club ? lead petitioners in the consolidated actions ? demonstrates ?the injury in fact? ... More About: Truck , Mexican , Circuit , Files , Public Citizen
Overdrive Magazine & Mexico Trucker
2007-11-20 21:07:00 The November issue of Overdrive magazine featured parts of an interview we did with the author of the piece and the resulting article, is one of the most fair and balances pieces of journalism I have seen so far regarding the Mexican truck debate. The author, Andy Duncan and others, went to great lengths to put ... More About: Magazine , Mexico
TV Azteca network adding English classes to its lineup
2007-11-19 12:27:00 MEXICO CITY ? As the debate over immigration reform festers in Congress, one message is clear: Americans think people from other countries who live in the United States ought to speak English . Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said it to a gathering of Latino journalists. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said it when he proposed a bill calling for ... More About: Network , Classes , Lineup
UPDATE: More Mexican carriers approved for the program
2007-11-19 02:41:00 It’s hard to stop a moving train and the Mexican Demonstration program is barreling ahead balls to the wall! This week, two more Mexican carriers were granted access. one, the Mexican division of Trinity Industries headquartered in Dallas Texas, gives some heavy political weight to the issue now. The updated list can be seen here That brings ... More About: Opinions , Carriers , Update , Program
Barriers for Mexican trucks questioned - Common sense in action
2007-11-18 05:38:00 "I don't think this has anything to do with Mexican trucks. It's the flashpoint for all the other issues: secure borders, national security, immigration policy and NAFTA," said Brigham McCown, a former U.S. Department of Transportation attorney who successfully defended the truck program in the U.S. Supreme Court. More About: Sense , Action , Trucks , Common
Smuggling nukes through Canada easier than Mexico
2007-11-18 03:00:00 OTTAWA — On Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2006, a silver SUV stopped on a dirt road along the Canada -U.S. border and a man in a windbreaker and jeans emerged toting a gym bag containing four small canisters of weapons-grade uranium. He walked about eight meters through a scrub field, past a stone obelisk marking the international boundary ... More About: Mexico , Smuggling , Nukes
Caught again - Osvaldo Aldrete Davila
2007-11-18 02:28:00 FEDERAL ATTORNEY’S STATEMENT of the arrest of Aldrete-Davila Ok, they got him, and he is facing 5 to 40 years in a Federal lockup! enough said. The upcoming proceedings should bear out what Johnny Sutton has been saying about his desire to prosecute this man. Before, Convict’s Ramos and Campeon’s action in lying, destroying evidence and ... More About: Caught , Borderlands , Osvaldo
American?s Missing in Mexico - Not what you might think!
2007-11-18 01:50:00 Glenn Beck and other’s have been on a rant recently about American s’ allegedly missing in Mexico . They twist the facts to make it appear that no white person or American is safe on the streets of Nuevo Laredo or any border city, and that simply is not the truth. I have been alluding to this for ... More About: Missing , Missi
Laredo Bridge worker suspended for extortion!
2007-11-15 13:47:00 Ed. Note! This really sucks the big one. A City of Laredo bridge traffic employee was suspended without pay this week for allegedly demanding money from paisanos before allowing them to cross the Colombia-Solidarity International Bridge .The employee is accused of forcing individuals and families to pay about $60 to cross the bridge into Mexico, City Manager ... More About: Borderlands , Extortion , Worker
Where there?s a will - Prison workers accused of smuggling immigrants
2007-11-15 13:34:00 Two guards and two of their supervisors at a South Texas immigration prison were charged with trying to use their positions to smuggle more than two dozen undocumented immigrants into the country, according to federal prosecutors. The U.S. attorney’s office in Houston said Tuesday that the four prison employees had worked out a shrewd ... More About: Workers , Prison , Smuggling , Immigrants
Dead soldier?s dad gets reprieve in immigration case
2007-11-15 13:04:00 Ed. Note! Boy, this is gonna piss the “righty whitey” crowd off! Move to deport him is put on hold while House looks at bill U.S. immigration officials have granted the father of a U.S.-born soldier killed in Iraq a reprieve from deportation while Congress considers a private bill that would give him a green card. More About: Immigration , Veterans , Dead , Case
Public Citizen - More blatant lies and distortions!
2007-11-14 01:08:00 Anyone wonder what our friend Joan Claybrook has been up to lately??? Same crap, different day, still relying on lies and exaggerations to get her agenda across to the soccer mom’s and other’s who prefer to let others do their thinking for them. We’ve almost Won No you haven’t! Mexico-based trucking companies are gaining access to the U.S. with ... More About: Public , Lies , Public Citizen , Citizen
How stupid have we become
2007-11-13 16:57:00 By Warner Todd Huston If a person of Hispanic origin rapes a woman and, in an attempt to catch this violent criminal, police publish a description identifying the suspect’s general racial makeup, is that a “racist” thing to do? Apparently the folks at KMYL (1190 AM) in the metro Phoenix, Arizona area think it is. It ... More About: Stupid , Most Wanted
Veterans Day 2007 - Remembering the forgotten Veterans
2007-11-12 22:49:00 Many don’t realize there are National Cemeteries around the world where veterans from all wars are buried. It might surprise some to know there is also one in Mexico City , closed to internments since 1923, but still maintained today Throughout the War with Mexico it was the practice of the U.S. Army, following major military ... More About: Veterans , Remembering , Forgotten , Veterans Day
Helping the victims of the Tabasco Floods
More articles from this author:2007-11-12 03:06:00 I’m probably wasting my time here, but the recent floods in Tabasco and Chiapas have left hundreds of thousands homeless, many with only the clothes on their back. If anyone cares to help, donations can be made at any WELLS FARGO BANK . Account Number 5992573401. The account name is AYUDAR TABASCO. There ... More About: Floods , Victims , Victim , Flood 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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