Besides safety and security concerns, issues that remain to be settled involve immigration, customs, reduced tax revenue for roads, and the impact of Mexican competition on the U.S. trucking industry and the livelihoods of American truck drivers, Spencer said. OOIDA concered about safety :lol: :lol: OOIDA concered about drivers livelihood :lol: :lol:

Probe: Undercover Investigators Get Into U.S. With Fake IDs Tuesday , August 01, 2006 Associated Press WASHINGTON — Undercover investigators entered the United States using fake documents repeatedly this year — including some cases in which Homeland Security Department agents didn't ask for identification. At nine border crossings on the Mexico and Canadian borders, agents "never questioned the authenticity of the counterfeit documents," according to Government Accountability Office -*test*-('")imony to be released Wednesday. "This vulnerability potentially allows terrorists or others involved in criminal activity to pass freely into the United States from Canada or Mexico with little or no chance of being detected," concluded the GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, in -*test*-('")imony obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. The findings, to be presented to the Senate Finance Committee, come as Congress considers delaying a 2007 deadline requiring passports or a small number of previously approved tamperproof ID cards from all who enter the United States. Homeland Security spokesman Jarrod Agen said agents are trained to identify false birth certificates, driver's licenses and other documents. But he conceded that agents sometimes cannot verify more than 8,000 different kinds of currently acceptable IDs without significantly slowing border traffic. "This creates a security vulnerability we were hoping to close" with the deadline at the end of next year, Agen said. The GAO probe follows a similar inquiry in 2003 and 2004 when undercover investigators crossed unhindered into the United States at least 14 times using counterfeit drivers' licenses and, in one case, an expired, altered U.S. diplomatic passport. During that investigation, however, border agents in New York and Florida stopped three undercover officials who were using expired and forged passports, drivers' licenses or birth certificates. By comparison, between February and June 2006, 18 GAO investigators breezed by border agents at checkpoints in California, Texas, Michigan, Idaho, Washington state, and twice each in Arizona and New York. In two cases — in Arizona and California — border agents did not ask the undercover investigators for any identification. In a third case, in Texas, investigators offered to show identification — a counterfeit Virginia drivers' license. The border agent replied, "OK, that would be good," but released the investigators before inspecting it, according to the prepared -*test*-('")imony by GAO investigator Gregory D. Kutz. Two of the 9/11 hijackers used fake Virginia residency certificates to get valid state ID cards needed to board the planes that flew into the World Trade Center. Neither GAO probe specified the location of any border checkpoints investigators went through. The 9/11 Commission called for tougher ID card rules at borders to help prevent terrorists from entering the country. Responding, Congress in 2004 approved requirements for all travelers — including Americans — to show passports or a small number of other approved secure documents before entering the U.S. Those requirements are supposed to take effect Dec. 31, 2007. But lawmakers from states that border Canada have since rebelled, contending the rules could hamper commercial and tourist travel. They are pushing to delay the rules by 17 months to ensure Homeland Security has proper technology to speed legitimate travel though border checkpoints. Agen said Homeland Security agents intercepted 75,000 fraudulent documents from border travelers last year. The department last month arrested a Mexican fugitive suspected of running a counterfeit document operation whose fake ID cards have turned up in all 50 states.

A sure fire way of getting into the USA is to say you are there "For Business Reasons...". Even a psychopathic American Minuteman can't resist an opportunity to make some money. A truckload of Canadian goods or a busload of rich senior citizens is like a free pass. And how much money did ND, MT, ID and MN get from that huge coffer of anti-terrorism payola...??? Don't worry about this shit!! There are bigger things than bogus terrorist threats...... . . .

At nine border crossings on the Mexico and Canadian borders.It's easy to get in here. From Mexico no one even ask's for ID going in either direction. From Canada it's a little tougher to get into the states most of the time. But it's easy as hell to get into Canada if your not in a CMV. Border security doesn't exist on either side of any of them them. I doubt the Govvernment's even care. Most of it is just a front for our amusement.

Un-Friggin Believabe....
One of 11 Missing Egyptian Exchange Students Arrested in Minneapolis Wednesday, August 09, 2006 Associated Press WASHINGTON — An Egyptian exchange student, among the 11 who entered the United States but failed to report for their college program, was arrested Wednesday in Minneapolis, the FBI said. Eslam Ibrahim Mohamed El-Dessouki, 21, was arrested "without incident" by FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko said. El-Dessouki is being held on an administrative immigration violation because he did not turn up for his monthlong exchange program at Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont., Kolko said. The other 10 students remain at large. They arrived in New York on July 29 as part of a group of 17 students. Six students reported to Bozeman on time. The missing students pose no terrorism threat, Kolko said. :shock: And this from a Federal Agency that allowed 9/11... :roll: "I Plege Elligeance To De Flag... I Don Need No Stinkin Gringo Flag!

Get out from under your bed, bed!! It's a global rite of passage for all young men to bask in the glorious debauchery of cheap booze, trashy women and loud rock&roll. Assuming they kept their composure long enough for the bus to leave NYC, I would check every roadside bar between NYC and Minn. These guys just wanna have fun.... Who wouldn't think a bus ride to Montana could be the biggest mistake you ever made....???? .

We could ask Soledad. Reproducing their company logo everyday should be worth 'a company secret' every now and then. But I think somebody else got it right: "They met these girls at the EconoLodge, went to have drinks in the bar and listen to the Eagle's cover band and the next thing you know they sobered up and found themselves managing a Laundromat in New Jersey.........so typical." . .

Here are mugs of the Egyptian students. While the FBI issued a BOLO on them, it did not supply enforcement with any mugs. They than said they were not concerned but then Heathrow blows up in their faces and they have no idea where a few of these students are in country. We don't have to be worried too much about the transportation industry as our supposed government is going to get us killed way before any dweller creatures do.... :roll:

Officials Arrest Man in 'Major Break' in Unsolved Border Slayings Friday , August 18, 2006 Associated Press MONTERREY, Mexico — A man suspected of participating in the rapes and killings of at least 10 women in a border city made infamous by the deaths of more than 100 young women since 1993 has been arrested, U.S. officials said Thursday. U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza called Tuesday's arrest of Edgar Alvarez Cruz on immigration violations in Denver "a major break" in the investigation into the unsolved deaths in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas. "We believe Alvarez Cruz's arrest will help U.S. and Mexican law enforcement authorities solve numerous cases involving the murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juarez and in Chihuahua, and ultimately bring their killers to justice," Garza said. Tim Counts, a regional spokesman with U.S. Immigration and Customs, said Alvarez Cruz was in its custody but declined further comment, citing security concerns. Federal officials in Denver did not have any information on where he was being held. Garza said the U.S. Marshals Service was assisting Mexican authorities with the investigations into the killings of the women in Ciudad Juarez and other parts of the border state of Chihuahua. Most of the victims were dumped in the desert outside of Ciudad Juarez, provoking outrage that reached around the world. Many of the victims were young women last seen in the city's downtown or after taking buses. Their bodies often didn't appear until months later. Mexico Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca told reporters Alvarez Cruz had been under investigation but fled the country. "We don't exactly how many homicides he may have been responsible for, but there is solid evidence in several cases we know of," Cabeza de Vaca said. He said federal authorities were in contact with prosecutors in the northern state of Chihuahua, where Ciudad Juarez is located, to learn more about the suspect. The U.S. Embassy said Alvarez Cruz may had been involved in 10 killings as part of a gang. There have been prosecutions in connection with some of the dozens of killings, but family members of some victims say authorities have to bring the true culprits to justice. Police have arrested several people, including an Egyptian chemist who died in prison last month; a bus driver whose conviction was overturned and his co-defendant, who died in prison before sentencing. A group of gang members are serving out sentences related to some of the murders. Federal authorities intervened in 2003, promising to solve the rape-strangulation cases of 14 teenagers and women in Juarez. But the office of attorney general quietly closed those investigations recently, without getting to the bottom of what happened.

but family members of some victims say authorities have to bring the true culprits to justice. Like the CEO's of American corperations such as Tyson/IBP who hire these people and lured them into unsafe conditions for young woman with the promise of a better life if they could make it across the boarder without getting raped and or killed. :twisted:

Excerpt From FOX NEWS Report- "We will also work with the leadership in the international force, once it's identified, to ensure that the United States is doing all we can to make this mission a success," Bush told reporters in the White House Conference Center briefing room. He said the United States has already offered active assistance in the form of diplomacy as well as cash and humanitarian aid, including 20,000 tons of wheat and $230 million in assistance. The president said $25 million of that pledge has been spent on rebuilding already. In addition, Bush said reopening the Beirut airport to passenger and humanitarian aid flights and ensuring a steady fuel supply for Lebanese power plants and automobiles are high priorities. Bush said other priorities include tapping into the private sector to find ways to help people rebuild their homes, rehabilitating schools before the new school year begins, cleaning up an oil slick near coastal communities and proposing a $42 million package to help train and equip Lebanon's armed forces." Why are we (The American Taxpayer) responsible for rebuilding Lebanon of all places? This countrys' infrastructure is falling apart, a huge recession is hanging over our heads with energy costs, most of our industrial capacity has been moved overseas, we are suffering from unrestricted immigration and a very large part of the population is poor, uneducated and committed to crime to survive this society and we are actually giving money to our enemies? How much more taxation can you afford? :evil:

What about New Orleans....???? Here's an example of why things don't get fixed in the USA. http://biguenet.page.nytimes.com/?8dpc (requires a password) so: "By the next morning, floodwater was pouring into the city from breaches in defective levees, inundating 80 percent of New Orleans. When the water finally found its level, in some places more than 10 feet deep, an area seven times the size of Manhattan had been destroyed. By the end of that first week, roughly 1,300 New Orleanians had drowned or died of dehydration and exposure. Katrina wasn’t what killed all those people and devastated a celebrated city; it was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As the Corps itself admits in its own draft final report on the disaster, “foundation failures occurred prior to water levels reaching the design levels of protection, causing breaching and subsequent massive flooding and extensive losses.” Another misconception that has persisted is the notion that many who died in the Lower Ninth Ward were stranded there because they had no means of transportation with which to evacuate. In fact, one of the most striking features I noted when I first toured the staggering devastation of that neighborhood after the flooding was how many cars and trucks had been submerged there. From the obituaries the Times-Picayune has published over the last year, it is clear that many New Orleanians who died had chosen to stay because, having survived previous hurricanes, they believed the Corps of Engineers’ assurances that the levees could protect them against a Category 3 hurricane. Though some people who died did not have transportation, many had cars and trucks available to them. As survivors gathered in the Superdome and the Convention Center waiting for days for the Bush administration to send federal assistance to the area, the media offered sensationalized accounts of chaotic conditions there, with murders and rapes reportedly widespread. In fact, only one violent death, a suicide, was ever confirmed to have occurred in those facilities during that terrible first week after the levees collapsed. According to those who were there, despite utterly wretched circumstances — thousands of people with no working toilets, in excruciating heat — people comported themselves with patience, with generosity toward those with even less, and with as much dignity as they could manage. After the flooding, New Orleanians were roundly criticized by Congressional leaders for choosing to live in an area below sea level. In fact, only parts of New Orleans are below sea level. My house, for example, is a foot above sea level, and it still received four feet of floodwater. We were hardly as foolish as Americans living in earthquake zones like San Francisco and Anchorage are. After all, we had assurances from the Corps of Engineers that we would be safe in a hurricane of Katrina’s strength. If we were foolish, it was in believing our government. So there’s a great deal about what happened in New Orleans that is widely misunderstood. On the other hand, what you think you know about FEMA is probably right. A few months ago at a neighborhood property owners association meeting, called to discuss the future of our area, a doctor who lives near me described how he had used his small fishing boat to rescue those stranded during the flooding. One evening, he found a group of people huddled on a rooftop, and he started ferrying them to dry ground. On the way back for a second load, he passed a boat with men wearing FEMA T-shirts. He shouted for them to follow him to pick up the remaining family members. The men refused, explaining that it was after 5 p.m. and they weren’t authorized for overtime." Nobody in their right mind wants help from the USA. But thanks for offering..... :D :D

http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20060825/cm_uc_crpbux/pat_buchanan20060825 There are 36 million immigrants here, a number almost equal to all who ever came from Jamestown in 1607 to JFK. We are host to more illegal aliens, 12 million, than all the Jews, English and Irish who came over 400 years.