News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Friday, March 30, 2007

Bill could delay lifting of ban on Mexican truck travel

Rep. Hunter wants background checks

By Paul M. Krawzak
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE

March 30, 2007

WASHINGTON – Legislation introduced in Congress yesterday could delay the Bush administration's plan to lift a longstanding ban on Mexican truck travel throughout the United States.

A pilot program to allow some Mexican truckers into the United States had been scheduled to begin next month.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, an opponent of the plan, introduced one of the bills, which would allow police to gain access to the same kind of criminal background information on Mexican truckers as they can pull up on American drivers.

Another bill introduced yesterday would require the Department of Transportation to seek public comment on the pilot program before it is launched and would limit the program to one year.

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