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Mexico Trucker was established to present the truth about the Mexican Trucker and the Mexican transportation industry and to dispel the accusations and myths being thrown about by the media and others in the United States. Having spent the past 35 years in the trucking industry, as a company driver, and owner operator and in management of several large companies, I am qualified to offer the opinions stated on Mexico Trucker. Also, having lived in various cities in Mexico over the past 10 years and traveling throughout this wonderful country both by motor coach and in my private vehicle, I am more than qualified to rebut the outrageous claims being made concerning Mexican Truckers and the other people of this wonderful country As the Mexican truck issue becomes a non issue, this site will continue to push for common sense immigration reform while protecting the rights of those unable to do so

A push by U.S. and Mexican authorities to combat the high-powered arms trafficking that fuels Mexico’s bloody drug war is putting increasing numbers of suspected drug smugglers in court.
Prosecutions for federal gun law violations are on pace to reach a 20-year high in South Texas as federal agents work to stem the “iron river of [...]

We all know the controversial Mexican Cross Border Program was extended for two more years on August 8, under Federal guidelines concerning Pilot Programs, and as we reported, Jimmy Hoffa immediately showed his no class ignorance by continuing his boring mantra about those unsafe, dangerous and illegal Mexican trucks, a notion we have continually disproved [...]

Eight Policemen of the Directorate of Public Safety, (Policia Municipal) were detained last night by US Customs Agents, after giving assistance to an American Citizen who was about to give birth in Nuevo Laredo.
Shortly before 2000 hours last night, officers assigned to patrol unit SC-111 were on routine patrol in the central business district when [...]

Nearly one ton of marijuana was discovered by the Army in a village near Ciudad Miguel Aleman, hidden in a vehicle and in a drainage ditch nearby.
Tuesday, the 75th Infantry Battalion was on patrol between Los Angeles and Miguel Aleman, .
They found a 1991 Black Ford Grand Marquis with Minnesota plates, containing 31 [...]

SAN CRISTOBAL, Mexico - Eighteen months after leaving office, former President Vicente Fox is taking a page from Jimmy Carter’s playbook and engineering his legacy as a champion of democratic values and government transparency at home and abroad.
In a wide-ranging interview at his ranch near historic Guanajuato, Fox discussed his new projects and chided the [...]

A troubled Houston bus company at the center of two accidents within two days this week has had faulty buses placed out of service 41 times since 2006 for issues such as bad tires and brake problems, records show.
Even so, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Transportes Los Norteños remains in compliance with [...]

Some Social Conservative Disillusionment
Some Americans are having a change of heart about mixing religion and politics. A new survey finds a
narrow majority of the public saying that churches and other houses of worship should keep out of political matters and not express their views on day-to-day social and political matters. For a decade, majorities of [...]

Phoenix’s branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said on Friday it took 18 automatic weapons bound for Mexico off Arizona streets before they got south of the border.
The guns were heading to drug cartels in Mexico from the U.S., said William Newell, special agent in charge, ATF, Phoenix field division.
Newell said [...]

I thought it was a good idea to start something like this as there is much happening in the blogosphere and in the news that doesn’t warrant a full post are who has been covered by others in a manner of excellence I cannot duplicate.
I want to start our, not with a news story but [...]

Vigilantes on U.S. border say they’re compassionate, even save illegal immigrants’ lives
The “Viagra Vigilantes” aka The Minutemen want you to know they are humanitarians, and they can be quite persuasive.
They say they are not vigilantes or racists. They understand the impulse to come to America, to feed a family. They might do it themselves [...]

A former Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty Tuesday to hitting an illegal Guatemalan immigrant in the face with his pistol and to putting the barrel of his pistol against the head of another illegal immigrant while interrogating him.
Santiago Perez, of Edinburg, admitted Tuesday in federal court in Houston to both cases of violating the civil [...]

An interesting and neutral article regarding the renewed attempts to free convicted felons Ramos and Compean appeared in todays San Antonio Express News
The article confirms what I have said all along here about the involvement of Ignacio Ramos’ father in law in successfully having this case tried in the court of public opinion which did [...]

After last weekend 3 bus crashes, resulting in 20 fatailities and more than 50 injuries, FMCSA seems to have gotten the message.
Iguala BusMex Inc. was awaiting approval for a federal license when one of its buses crashed near Sherman on Friday. The company is run by Angel de la Torre, who also operates Angel Tours [...]

Ninety-five percent chance guns came from U.S.
REYNOSA, Mexico - Federal police in Reynosa made a bust at home and now several hundred pounds of drugs and lots of guns are in their custody.
An anonymous tip led authorities to the house. No one was home at the time of the raid. But police did find 10 [...]

Bill would mandate “Black Boxes” in all CMV’s
Two U.S. senators today urged tougher regulations aimed at improving bus safety in response to last week’s deadly accident that killed 17 Vietnamese Catholics from Houston.
Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued statements calling for the passage of their legislation, known as the Motorcoach Enhanced [...]

So what’s going on here? Are we so fixated on legally operated, safe Mexican Cross Border trucks that we totally ignore the commercial bus industry in the United States?
On the heels of Friday morning deadly crash in Sherman Texas that killed 17 and injured more than 35 people when the recapped steering tire blew out [...]

Marco Antonio Solís is without question one of the most important figures in the rise of Mexican and Latin music to world prominence during the last two decades of the 20th century.
Born in Michoacan, Mexico, Solís was only 12 when he formed his first group, Los Hermanitos Solís, with brother Joel.
He was still [...]