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why are we allowing this? Obama is making a big mistake.

LaHood tells Senate panel new Mexico truck plan 'very close'

By LYNDON FINNEY
The Trucker Staff

5/6/2010

WASHINGTON — Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Thursday told a Senate subcommittee than the Obama administration’s intention was to restart the Cross Border Demonstration Project with Mexico and that a new proposal would be presented to senators “very soon” and that it was even “very close.”

Two months ago, LaHood told the same panel that a new proposal was “very near.”

LaHood’s comments Thursday came during questioning from Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development.

LaHood and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan were testifying before a subcommittee on an Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities.



Mexico charges import duties on US? LOL, we need to throw down on this and forget about Con Agra's union busting plans:

“Back in March, I urged you and the administration to move quickly to craft a plan to resume cross-border trucking with Mexico in a way that would address the safety concerns raised during the pilot and end the tariffs imposed by the Mexican government,” Murray said to LaHood Thursday. “You told this subcommittee that a resolution would be forthcoming ‘soon.’ Mr. Secretary, you should know that the effects of the Mexican tariffs have been absolutely devastating to farmers and families in my home state of Washington and across the country. The tariffs undermine our farmers’ competitiveness — and they are killing jobs and devastating communities.

“In the two months since you last appeared before this subcommittee, the ConAgra potato processing plant in Prosser, Washington shut down — eliminating hundreds of good paying jobs,” Murray told LaHood.

“And if we don’t address this problem soon, this will just be the beginning; thousands more jobs in Washington state and across the country are in serious jeopardy of being shipped outside our borders,” she said.


i really want to know why Mexican tarrifs cause a Wash State potato processor. we don't sell potatoes to Mexico do we?

“We will be announcing it very soon and we will come to Capitol Hill and brief every senator that has an interest in what it says and get feedback,” LaHood responded. “President Obama's administration’s intention is to restart this program. It’s a part of NAFTA. It needs to be restarted and we believe if it is restarted these tariffs will be lifted which we know have had a devastating effect, not only on the state of Washington, but on many other states across the country.

“I sat down this week with the Mexican Ambassador to the United States because I wanted to make sure he knew how harmful his country’s tariffs were to families in Washington state. We’re very close to briefing you and other senators …”



http://www.thetrucker.com/News/Stories/2010/5/6/LaHoodtellsSenatepanelnewMexicot ruckplanveryclose.aspx

the drug trafficing jobs will be so much easier with this.. it's sick.

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Mexico tariffs hit a diverse list of U.S. goods
Mica Rosenberg
MEXICO CITY
Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:35pm EDT
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico said on Wednesday it was imposing higher tariffs totaling $2.4 billion on a wide list of U.S. imports ranging from strawberries to Christmas trees after Washington banned Mexican trucks from U.S. roads.

The official government gazette said the new tariffs, which will range from 10 percent to 45 percent, will be effective on Thursday.

Mexico said the U.S. ban on its trucks violates the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, and in retaliation published a list of dozens of products subject to tariffs.

To avoid raising prices for local consumers, the Mexican government excluded major staples like rice, corn, wheat and meat products and instead focused on imports that could affect as many U.S. states as possible without hurting Mexican manufacturers.

The list of 90 imports, estimated by the Mexican government to be worth $2.4 billion a year, included sunglasses, toilet paper, pet food, ornaments, soy sauce, Christmas trees and produce such as strawberries, pears and onions.

"One of the very difficult issues that any government has in this highly integrated global economy is to come up with a retaliatory list that doesn't end up doing more damage to a home country's interest as opposed to a foreign country," said Jon Huenemann, a former U.S. Trade Representative official.

Mexico, the United States' No. 3 trade partner, is angry the U.S. Congress scrapped a pilot program this month that allowed Mexican trucks to haul goods deep into the United States.

Some U.S. lawmakers and truck driver unions say Mexican trucks do not meet U.S. safety standards, a charge Mexico denies.

Mexico said it imposed the sanctions according to NAFTA rules since the two countries have not been able to resolve the dispute simmering since 2001.

Only about 1.5 percent of U.S. exports to Mexico are affected by the new rules but trade experts say the flap will be the first real test of President Barack Obama's trade strategy.


http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE52H1BQ20090318


close the border, and lessee how they manage without their remittances.


Drug Smugglers From Mexico Relocate to Town in New Mexico

Friday, May 01, 2009

COLUMBUS, N.M. — The dusty little border town of Columbus, New Mexico, with almost no visible means of support, has been seeing something of a boom in the past year: Brand-new sport utility vehicles with flashy wheel rims are parked just off the bleak main drag. Homes are selling quickly, sometimes for cash.

The source of this sudden wealth? An influx of Mexican drug smugglers, investigators say.

The smugglers are fleeing the Mexican army's occupation of the town of Palomas, on the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border fence, and settling in Columbus, where there has been a law enforcement vacuum. The four-man police force in Columbus has turned over seven times in three years because of scandal or apathy.

"We know the names of the people," said Luna County Sheriff Raymond Cobos, who is based in Deming, 35 miles away. "I know that if I were a person involved in criminal activity, whether it's drug-related, human smuggling related, I certainly would welcome the absence of police."

So far, Columbus has been spared any violence, even though the sheriff's investigators estimate 10 percent of the population of 2,000 may be involved in illegal activity.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518639,00.html

Canadians are even smarter than this....

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oh and by the way? as far as i can find? Mexico was not opening thier roads to US drivers yet either..


Now U.S. trucks
to cruise Mexico
'Demonstration project' to include
American vehicles south of border

Seeking to deflect growing criticism, the Department of Transportation made two surprise statements late yesterday, announcing modifications to its plan allowing 100 Mexican trucking companies to run their long-haul rigs throughout the U.S.

Responding to trucking industry criticism that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, or FMCSA, was not merely conducting a test but implementing a permanent program without public comment, the FMCSA for the first time posted to the Federal Register a proposed set of "demonstration project" rules.

Also amid criticism Mexico had not opened up its own road to U.S. trucks, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters announced in a DOT statement issued late yesterday that U.S. trucks will be allowed to operate in Mexico at the start of the demonstration project.

As WND previously reported, when the Mexican truck pilot project initially was introduced by Peters Feb. 23, the test was entirely one-way. Mexican trucks from 100 Mexican trucking companies were to be given free access to the U.S., but at that time, Mexico had not agreed to open up to U.S. trucks.


http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55469

fire all of these politicians involved in this fiasco. Obama too if he does this.

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There we go getting punked again under Obama. The guy is such a pushover when it comes to other countries, but when it comes to internal politics he fights.

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btw the problem is being bordered with a country like Mexico. We obviously dont have this problem with the Canadian border. Canada is far less dirty, corrupt, filled with drug king pins, etc

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quote:
Originally posted by CashCowMoo:
btw the problem is being bordered with a country like Mexico. We obviously dont have this problem with the Canadian border. Canada is far less dirty, corrupt, filled with drug king pins, etc

hmmm... not so sure, i was never in the Northwest, but i hear there's been alot of drugs that came into Seattle from Canada...

the real issue is that Canadians have a standard of living more or less equal to ours, it's better in some ways and not as good in others. They still have lots of natrual resources to capitalise, while Mexico does not.

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quote:
Originally posted by CashCowMoo:
There we go getting punked again under Obama. The guy is such a pushover when it comes to other countries, but when it comes to internal politics he fights.

it hasn't happened yet, but remeber this was a Bush plan that Oabma stopped (maybe temporarily?), and NAFTA was also a Bush plan that Clintn ran with.. so Obama and others needs to hear that this is not popular...

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Why isnt the pressure full court press on Mexico to do something about this? My goodness Mexico is a pathetic state of affairs.

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