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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Carragher who wrote (3130)	3/23/2009 3:01:56 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3197

rush limbaugh. He also thinks the AIG bonuses taken from the pockets of American taxpayers are justified...

To: John Carragher who wrote (3130)	3/23/2009 3:09:35 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 3197

Newsmax reports: There is no way/no how that U.S. trucking regulations will be enforced in Mexico. # Mexican drivers are supposed have to be drug-tested. However, there are no certified alcohol/drug testing facilities in Mexico. # There is no national criminal database in Mexico. # Corruption is epidemic. The DOT does a lousy job of inspecting American trucks (some 40 percent inspected). Does anyone really expect them to do any better with Mexican trucks? Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, has called the program, “a perfect storm. It is a predictable disaster.” # The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) reports that 17.5 percent of inspected Mexican trucks had bad brakes! # One in four border-crossing drivers did not have a Mexican commercial license. # 15 percent had no logbooks. Seventy percent of the $300 billion in trade between the US and Mexico in 2006 was carried by truck. You don’t need to be a tree hugger to understand that more traffic in older, dirtier rigs will hurt clean air standards. According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) allowing Mexican trucks into the U.S. will bring an additional 50 tons per day of polluting nitrogen oxide and 2.5 tons of other particulate matter into California. An average US trucker pays over $16,000 in highway user fees. Mexicans trucks won’t be paying spit. Thousands of trucks at some 400 gallons per truck will contribute significantly to lost highway maintenance tax money.