talk.politics.misc

Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:

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>Along with jobs and safety issue there is also the concern that this
>will lead to more smuggling of illegals. Keep these damn trucks out.
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>Teamsters to Try to Block Mexican Trucks
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>(08-29) 16:55 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --
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>The Teamsters Union said Wednesday it will ask a federal appeals court
>to block the Bush administration's plan to allow Mexican trucks to carry
>cargo anywhere in the United States.
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>The union said it has been told by officials in the Transportation
>Department's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that the first
>Mexican trucks will be coming across the border on Saturday.
>
>Teamsters leaders said they planned to seek an emergency injunction
>Wednesday from the 9th . Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
>
>"What a slap in the face to American workers, opening the highways to
>dangerous trucks on Labor Day weekend, one of the busiest driving
>weekends of the year," said Teamsters President Jim Hoffa.
>
>Joining the Teamsters in seeking the emergency stay were the Sierra Club
>and Public Citizen. "Before providing unconditional access throughout
>the country to tens of thousands of big rigs we know little to nothing
>about, we must insure they meet safety and environmental standards,"
>Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope said.


If the Teamsters were really True Blue they'd block
the flow of good from south of the border - effectively
putting an end to NAFTA and thus saving huge numbers of
American farms and jobs.