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To: sea_urchin who wrote (16257)	9/3/2007 4:30:39 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Re: open the U.S. border to long haul Mexican trucks as early as next week after an appeals court rejected a bid by labor, consumer and environmental interests*** to block the initiative. [...] *** these are the racists you refer to. You will also notice there is no mention of terrorists using the trucks to gain access to the US. I'm afraid you're mixing up two different issues here, namely, mass immigration of (illegal) Hispanics who seek to work in the US AND Mexican (long-haul) truck drivers who drive across the US-Mexico border legally. Of course, the latter are resented as unfair competitors by their US (unionized) fellow truck-drivers... So, I wouldn't call them "racists" but, more accurately, "corporacists" since they basically want to secure their jobs and salaries from cheaper Mexican competitors. Somehow, it's a predicament similar to that of West European truck drivers who are being displaced by cheaper Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian,..., competitors. So, the issue is certainly not about shutting down the whole freight traffic between Mexico and the US --clue: Crossings In FY 2004, 12,338 trucks crossed the border daily, up 63 percent from FY 1994, the year the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted. Cross-border land trade with Mexico totaled just under $225 billion in 2004, nearly double the $115 billion in cross-border trade in 1998. (Sources: US Department of Transportation; the Washington Post) The volume of land inspections at the southern border decreased 21 percent between FY 2000 and FY 2004. Land inspections at the southern border decreased from 324 million in FY 2000 to 255 million in FY 2004. Land inspections made up 78 percent of all inspections (429 million) in FY 2004, and 76 percent of the 333 million total land inspections were conducted at the southern border. These inspection figures include individuals who make multiple entries, such as visitors with nonimmigrant visas or border crossing cards. (Source: PAS G-22.1 Inspections, Office of Immigration Statistics, DHS) In 2004, there was an average of 660,000 passenger crossings per day across 35 points of entry (POEs) on the 1,952-mile border between the United States and Mexico. Crossings by personal vehicles rose 43 percent between 1995 and 1999 and then fell 21 percent (to 191 million) by 2004. Almost 20 percent of passenger crossings into the United States from Mexico in 2004 were made on foot, while bus crossings only constituted 1.4 percent (3.4 million) of crossings from Mexico. In 2004 there were over 20 million pedestrian crossings in Texas alone. (Source: US Bureau of Transportation Statistics) migrationinformation.org I referred the above link in my post #16172.