ProEnglish Sends Letter to President Bush Signed by 15 Organizations Condemning Mexican Truck Drivers' English Waiver as a Safety Hazard, 5-05-08

ARLINGTON, Va., May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ProEnglish, an
Arlington, Va.-based national organization that advocates for official
English, released a letter to President Bush today, urging him to order
U.S. Department of Transportation to stop allowing Mexican truck drivers
involved in the NAFTA demonstration project to demonstrate their
"proficiency in English" by answering questions in Spanish.

Read entire article, 5-05-08

Group plans Saturday rally to oppose Trans-Texas Corridor, 4-03-08

Opponents of the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor plan to stage a big march and rally Saturday, April 5, at the Capitol in Austin.

Gov. Rick Perry’s corridor plan calls for 4,000 miles of privately financed and operated toll roads throughout the state.

Rally organizer Terri Hall, executive director of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom - or TURF - said if the toll roads are built, truckers will pay a high price.

"They’ll be facing 50 cents a mile minimum truck start toll rates, added onto our already high cost of fuel," Hall told "Land Line Now" on XM Satellite Radio.

"This will be an absolute disaster for the trucking industry that already operates at a very thin margin of profit, if not now running at a loss with the gas prices we’re seeing."

Read entire article, 4-03-08

Mexican truck drivers take English exam in Spanish, 3-16-08

DOT chief's admission to Senate panel contradicts administration's assurances

Mexican truck drivers allowed to travel throughout the U.S. under a Bush administration demonstration project may not be proficient in English, despite Department of Transportation assurances to the contrary.

Read entire article, 3-16-08

UNSAFE MEXICAN TRUCKS ROAM US HIGHWAYS & POSE GRAVE RISK, 12-05-07

Members of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association say they have documented hundreds of safety violations by Mexican trucks rolling on U.S. roads under the Department of Transportation's Mexican truck demonstration project.

"The Department of Transportation is allowing Mexican long-haul rigs to operate in the United States without requiring U.S. rules and regulations to be enforced," Rick Craig, the director of regulatory affairs for the group, told WND in a telephone interview yesterday.

Read entire article, December 5, 2007

Taxpayers foot bill for Mexican truckers

Safety equipment tab starts out at $367,000

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced that U.S. taxpayers will be footing the startup costs of a program to install satellite tracking technology on vehicles taking part in the Mexican Truck Demonstration Program.

The announcement confirmed the U.S. government would "initially spend approximately $367,000 to outfit all trucks from the United States and Mexico that take part in the program."

Read entire article, November 7, 2007

Feds outsource Mexican truck safety

Trilateral trade association becomes chief inspector

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has delegated key inspection requirements for Mexican trucks to a non-governmental trilateral trade association, whose goal is to impose North American standards on all commercial motor vehicles operating in Mexico, Canada, and the United States.

Since the early 1980s, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, or CVSA, operating as a non-governmental organization, has quietly knit together the motor-vehicle agencies in the three countries, building a common regulatory continental structure below the radar of public opinion, available now to function as the backbone of the FMCSA effort to allow approved Mexican trucking companies to run their long-haul rigs throughout the United States. WorldNetDaily.com, October 22, 2007

NAFTA question draws 'I don't know'

Oklahoma lawmaker vows to halt Superhighway at state line

The expressed intention of a state lawmaker in Oklahoma to halt any NAFTA Superhighway project at his state line has failed to draw a meaningful response from the White House.

Spokeswoman Dana Perino was asked by Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, about the comments from state Sen. Randy Brogdon, who told a meeting in Tulsa that "The NAFTA Superhighway stops here at the border with Oklahoma." WorldNetDaily.com, October 2, 2007

Several Central Texas towns working to prevent the building of the Trans Texas Corridor

Four Bell County towns are heating up the debate over the Trans Texas Corridor, by demanding answers from the Texas Department of Transportation.

Holland, Bartlett, Little River Academy and Rogers formed a commission, and now all four school districts from those areas are joining the fight to keep the corridor from being built through their towns. KCenTV.com, Sep 12, 2007

Trucking another job we don't want?

Mexican trucks with Mexican truck drivers are now permitted to enter the U.S. and drive to any destination. These trucks are loaded at Mexican ports.

Mexican drivers are paid half or less than American drivers. Soon all deliveries in America will be cheaper by using Mexican drivers. American drivers will lose their jobs, homes and cars, not pay property taxes and then the government will say, "See? These are jobs Americans don't want." DailyHerald.com, 9-13-07

Senate votes to kill Mexican truck demo

Bush 'Open Borders' agenda dealt serious bipartisan blow

The U.S. Senate has dealt a likely death blow to the Bush administration plans to give Mexican long-haul trucking rigs free access to United States roads and highways. WorldNetDaily.com, 9-1--07

Canada preparing ports for NAFTA Superhighway

Building 'free trade gateway' between Asia, North America

Canada is developing Pacific ports to compete with the U.S. ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, as well as with the Mexican ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, in an attempt to draw a substantial market share of the millions of containers expected to flow into North America in the coming decades from China and the Far East.

WorldNetDaily.com, 9-11-07

Senator moves to block Mexican trucks

Democrat's amendment cuts funding to project opening U.S. highways

Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan plans to offer an amendment today that would block the controversial federal program allowing Mexican trucks to operate freely on roads across the U.S. WorldNetDaily.com, 9-10-07

Bush administration allocates $66M to 'NAFTA highways'

The Bush administration announced Monday it is granting $66.2 million to reduce congestion and improve freight flow on several so-called NAFTA highways.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is allocating the money so it can work with state and local governments and the private sector on six interstate highways, with projects including the addition of bypasses and trucks-only lanes. Five of those highways connect to or run near the Mexican or Canadian borders: BizJournals.com, September 10, 2007

NAFTA Superhighway plans advance south

Texas governor, Mexico agree to extend Trans-Texas Corridor

Official Mexican government reports reveal Mexico has entered discussions with the state of Texas and top officials in the Bush administration to extend the Trans-Texas Corridor into Mexico, with a plan to connect through Monterrey to the deep-water Mexican ports on the Pacific, including Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas.

The official website of the Mexican northeastern state of Nuevo León contain multiple reports that José Natividad Gonzáles Parás, governor of the Mexican state of Nuevo León, has actively discussed with numerous U.S. government officials, including Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the extension of the Trans-Texas Corridor into Mexico to create what's called a "Trans North America Corridor." WorldNetDaily.com, Sept. 10, 2007

Mexican rigs hitting U.S. pavement today

Congressman: Bush 'hell-bent' to green-light foreign truckers

Trucks owned by Mexican trucking companies and piloted by Mexican drivers are scheduled to hit the pavement of U.S. roadways as early as today, according to an Oregon congressman.

U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., late yesterday said what critics call the Bush administration's "stealth plan" to allow Mexican long-haul rigs to run on roads throughout the United States is being launched. WorldNetDaily.com, September 7, 2007

Superhighway a cash cow?

NASCO to collect each time RFID containers tagged

North America's SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc., or NASCO, has figured out a way to cash in on the Chinese containers passing along the NAFTA Superhighway from the Mexican ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas to U.S. and Canadian destinations. WorldNetDaily.com, September 5, 2007

Teamsters will ask courts to block Mexican truckers

WASHINGTON — The Teamsters Union said today it will 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.

The union said it has been told by officials in the U.S. Transportation Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that the first Mexican trucks will be coming across the border on Saturday. Detroit Free Press, August 29, 2007

Mexican rigs ready to roll

Truckers in 'demonstration' expected on roads Sept. 1

The requirements for the U.S. Department of Transportation's Mexican Truck Demonstration Project have been met, and some 37 Mexican trucking companies have been approved to run their long-haul rigs through the U.S. starting as early as Sept. 1, according to a Mexican government report.

In the United States, the inspector general of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Aug. 6 issued to the House and Senate Appropriations Committee an audit about implementing NAFTA's cross-border trucking provisions, the last hurdle DOT faced before allowing the Mexican truck demonstration project to begin. WorldNetDaily.com, August 24, 2007

The Nation cover story denies Superhighway

Nevertheless acknowledges massive Texas project to accommodate NAFTA, WTO

In a cover story for the current Nation magazine, Christopher Hayes is the latest to join a growing list of those who deny a NAFTA Superhighway exists.

"There is no such thing as a proposed NAFTA Superhighway," Hayes declares.

The remainder of the article, however, shows how the Trans Texas Corridor under construction parallel to Interstate 35 is specifically designed to accommodate the steadily growing volume of NAFTA and World Trade Organization traffic pouring into Texas from China and the Far East through Mexican ports on the Pacific such as Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas. WorldNetDaily.com, August 15, 2007

Question: What is the NAFTA superhighway, and how would it work?

NAFTA superhighway is a buzz phrase for major transportation corridors that carry international trade through the three biggest countries of North America: Mexico, the United States and Canada.

These highways existed long before implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement began on Jan. 1, 1994.

With total domestic freight tonnage projected to increase 67 percent by 2020, the race is on to secure funding to maintain and improve the U.S. domestic transportation infrastructure and to build new roads to alleviate critical congestion on the nation's roads. AZStar.net, 8.09.2007

Nightmare scenario on NAFTA superhighway

Truck traffic disrupted due to bridge collapse higher than estimated

As details of the Minnesota bridge collapse become clearer, the role of international freight carried by NAFTA Superhighway trucks on I-35 remains an important backdrop of the human tragedy and the traffic nightmare the city is just now beginning to appreciate. WorldNetDaily.com, August 8, 2007

NAFTA Superhighway traffic tied to bridge collapse

Evidence of increasing international trade truck traffic on Interstate 35 through Minnesota raises concerns that NAFTA Superhighway traffic contributed to last week's collapse of the freeway bridge in Minneapolis. WorldNetDaily.com, August 5, 2007

President Bush to Attend Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit

Next month, President Bush will join Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Quebec for a Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit. (I would include a link to a news story on the summit, but you can’t read about it anywhere in the mainstream press, which has largely ignored the Security and Prosperity Partnership from the very beginning.) NationalLedger.com, August 3, 2007

Now Cheney chimes in: Ain't no superhighways

VP latest to make official denial, some call it 'gaming semantics'

Despite evidence to the contrary, Vice President Dick Cheney says there is no "secret plan" to create a continent-crossing superhighway to help facilitate a merger of the United States, Mexico and Canada. WorldNetDaily.com, July 29, 2007

Goodbye America, Hello North American Union

In a month, August 20 and 21, the leaders of the United States, Canada, and Mexico will sit down together in Montebello, Quebec to discuss making the borders between these three nations disappear. They will discuss progress on a vast highway project passing through America to link Mexico with Canada. FreeMarketNews.com, July 16, 2007

Opposition to Mexican trucks on U.S. roads still strong

WASHINGTON – Critics appear as full-throated as ever in their opposition to a Bush administration plan to open the nation's highways to Mexican trucks, according to a review of public comments collected so far by the federal government. signonsandiego.com, July 7, 2007

Test to allow Mexican trucks deeper into U.S. starts July

MEXICO CITY -- Despite widespread resistance from U.S. truckers and numerous safety concerns in Congress, officials are confident a pilot program to allow Mexican trucks into all areas of the United States will be in place by July, a top U.S. trade official said Tuesday. Associated Press

Rudy Giuliani tied to 'superhighways'

Law firm represents consortia funding NAFTA-related routes

Questions are being raised over Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's policy on terrorism, after a report revealed he has strong ties to two foreign investment consortia working to own or lease U.S. toll roads, including the Trans-Texas Corridor 35, which is identified as part of the I-35 "NAFTA Superhighway." WorldNetDaily.com, May 15, 2007

Terrorism: The One Job Americans Just Won’t Do

I finally figured it out. I kept hearing about all those jobs Americans just won’t do. We’re never really told what they are, but I guess we should be happy they’re getting done and stop complaining about all the negative aspects of having twenty million illegal aliens in our midst. HumanEvents.com, 5/15/2007

NAFTA Superhighway hits bump in road

Given severe blow as Texas Legislature voting to block program


EL PASO – The Texas legislature moved closer to blocking the Trans-Texas Corridor last week with a bill that would place a two-year moratorium all public-private partnerships that would involve the construction of new toll roads financed and operated by private foreign investment groups. WorldNetDaily.com, April 23, 2007

Mexican truckers' free travel put on hold

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration appears to be delaying the start of a one-year experiment that would allow 100 Mexican carriers access to U.S. highways for the first time since 1982. SignOnSanDiego.com, April 27, 2007

Teamsters sue to halt Mexican truckers

'This reckless program must be stopped and the public protected'

A lawsuit has been filed by the Teamsters against the Transportation Department's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration over a pilot plan to allow Mexican truck drivers – and trucks – access to U.S. highways. WorldNetDaily.com, April 25, 2007

Administration poised to open border to trucks

WASHINGTON – Mexican trucks are poised to begin rolling freely throughout the United States within weeks despite long-standing opposition from lawmakers and others who fear that opening the border poses a risk to motorists and a threat to national security. signonsandiego.com, 4/22/07

Rally To Focus on Immigration Debate

On many issues, it seems like our elected representatives simply don’t listen. They head to Washington and think about Washington — not the men and women they represent back home. This situation is certainly true with the illegal immigration debate. Now, conservative talk radio is jumping into the mix with a planned rally that will show what the American people want regarding border security and illegal immigration.
gopusa.com, April 19, 2007

TRUCKERS BOYCOTT

NATIONAL TRUCKER’S “TRUCK OUT” BOYCOTT: To protest President Bush, and our elected federal and state government official’s plan to allow tens of thousands of Mexican truckers onto America ’s highways in the next 45 days.

Los Angeles/ Washington D.C. - In conjunction with the "Hold Their Feet To The Fire" Rally in Washington DC on April 23, 24, 25, 2007 there will be a National protest boycott by American Independent truckers NATIONAL "TRUCK OUT" BOYCOTT a "Circle-the-Wagons Blockade Against Anarchy" S T O P the Bush-Kennedy Plan to Give Amnesty to Illegal Aliens and Trucker-Jobs to Mexican Drivers – STOP THE NAU AND NAFTA - All 48 state legislature capital-buildings will be the target of the Boycott including our National Capital. A Bumper-to-Bumper, Three + Trucks –Wide - on Monday – Tuesday – Wednesday APRIL 23, 24, 25— 2007 . Truckers will boycott all along the boundaries of the border states, and every state in the United States, every state capitol, including Washington D.C. SaveAmericaFund.com

Mexican truck stampede to hit U.S.!

Bush administration moving ahead despite congressional opposition

Despite congressional opposition, the Bush administration is fully committed to beginning within weeks a pilot test that will allow Mexican trucks to operate freely across the U.S. WorldNetDaily.com, April 12, 2007

Bush team raises dangers on highways

While semis and cars keep smashing into each other with alarming regularity from here on the South Beltline Highway to the interstates on the edges of our biggest cities, the Bush administration has now seen fit to open the doors to even more truck traffic. The Capital Times, March 12, 2007.

Bush Opens Our Border To Mexican Trucks

Our federal and state highways and bridges are among America's great assets; they enable us to drive freely and safely all over our country, and they belong to all of us, paid for by our taxes. Phyllis Schlafly Column - 3/14/07