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Congress deals blow to trade with reversal on Mexican trucks

Does the 110th Congress believe it must honor the nation’s treaty obligations? Apparently not. The House voted 395-18 Tuesday to close the southern border to Mexican long-haul trucks, effectively reneging on the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement’s promise to give Mexican truckers full access to U.S. highways.

The legislation, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., would end a demonstration program launched last year to show that Mexican trucks could safely navigate U.S. roads. It’s just the latest of many attempts to erase this treaty obligation. Congressional Democrats, at the behest of the politically powerful Teamsters union and some environmental groups, led this years-long effort to deny Mexican trucks access to U.S. roads initially. With an election on the near horizon, most House Republicans joined them for Tuesday’s vote.

It is shameful that House members would vote by such a wide margin to ignore this treaty obligation. The vote was seen as politically expedient, no doubt. Trade protectionism generally plays well during uncertain economic times, and that’s what this political opposition to NAFTA’s provision regarding Mexican trucks is all about — protecting U.S. truckers from foreign competition.

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Convicted Felons and former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean lost another appeal Thursday.

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans refused to reconsider the ruling a three-judge panel had issued in late July that affirmed most of the charges against Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean.

The men shot Osvaldo Aldrete Davila of Mexico, hitting the unarmed smuggler in the buttocks after he abandoned a load of marijuana and ran across the border into Mexico.

The agents said they fired because they thought he had a gun in his hand, but were sent to prison for more than a decade after a jury determined there was a cover-up. Aldrete Davila was given immunity for transporting that load, but was sentenced last month to 114 months in prison over a separate drug load.

Opponents of unauthorized immigration have gotten behind the agents, but U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, who supervised the prosecution, said in a prepared statement, “Today’s ruling validates what this office has said all along — this prosecution was about the rule of law, plain and simple.”

It also validates the position of this website, a position we have maintained all along.

Next stop, the US Supreme Court which I imagine will refuse without comment, to take a look at this case. Justice was served and it wasn’t served in the Court of Public Opinion as the family of Ignacio Ramos tried to make happen.

(But hey! It put a quarter of a million dollars in their pockets)

So many extremist groups today claim to be America’s Voice or the Voice of the working American when in reality, they are nothing more than Klansmen of old in leisure suits.

In Truth,America’s Voice is people such as me and you, tired of the lies and the pompous posturing of those who use the Immigration debate to fill their hip pockets and spread their peculiar brand of hate.

We’re coming upon that time of the year when they have what seems to be becoming an annual affair, called “Hold their feet to the fire” or some silly ass name. Remember last year when Steve Sommers of America’s Trucking Network went to Washington to smooze with the bigots?

So who is behind this and who are they? Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has insinuated themselves into the extremist movement and proudly proclaim that they are the ones the media and Congress come to when answers are needed about the Immigration debate and possible solutions.

FAIR is bringing people to visit Congressional offices to discuss immigrants and immigration policy. As Members of Congress and their staff prepare to meet with FAIR supporters, you should know some key facts about the group’s origins and leaders. Did you know that:

• The Southern Poverty Law Center has named FAIR a “hate group.” The list of other groups which have earned this distinction from SPLC include: the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, and the Aryan Nations. (Link)
• FAIR was founded by a supporter of eugenics, John Tanton, with funds from the Pioneer Fund, a foundation committed to the belief that some races of people are genetically and intellectually superior to other races. Tanton continues as a leader of FAIR and sits on its board of directors.  ( Who else believed this? Wasn’t it a gentlemen by the name of Adolph?)
• FAIR employed and continues to employ known anti-Catholic bigots, including Rosanna Pulido, who said of the Catholic Church in the United States:
  What better way to fill your pews and fill your offering coffers than with inviting in and giving sanctuary to illegal aliens? . . . What is being passed off right now by the Catholic Church is not Catholicism. It has nothing to do with Christianity or the Bible.(Link)
  
  And FAIR Executive Director Dan Stein went further, targeting Latino Catholics:
  Certainly we would encourage people in other countries to have small families. Otherwise they’ll all be coming here, because there’s no room at the Vatican. . . . Many immigrants hate America, hate everything the United States stands for. Talk to some of these Central Americans. (Link)

Read the rest of the evidence and more at America’s Voices and then decide if your hard earned money is going to the right place such as F.A.I.R. and wannabes such as Willie Gheen’s ALIPAC.us which is in the middle of his beggin drive at the moment!

Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry has found that Pima County Public Defender Isabel Garcia didn’t violate any policy by protesting at a controversial event.

Garcia was present at a protest over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s July 10 book signing at a local store. Video of Garcia holding the severed pinata head with Arpaio’s face on it has been widely distributed on the Internet

Garcia is a member of Coalición de Derechos Humans, which organized the protest.
Huckelberry’s memo, which was released Monday, states that “no disciplinary action is warranted in this matter.”
According to the memo, Garcia:

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Talk about being blindsided. There has been rumor about Google entering the browser market and now rumor is reality! Google Chrome, Googles open source entry takes it’s place alongside Firefox, Safari, Opera, and of course, Microsoft’s rusty and crusty Internet Explorer.

Check it out and DOWNLOAD IT HERE

I’m using it and it’s great. Light, fast, installs seamlessly and imports from existing browsers without issues.

THE CORE OF GOOGLE CHROME

Google Chrome is a complex product that is needed in an age when the Web has also become more complex.

Google pushes simple use and a sophisticated core. Just look at how clean and simple the Google search page. Google Chrome is built on the same idea - clean and simple to use. The browser, Google says, is just another application and the company wants people to “forget” that they’re using a browser.

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ENSENADA – Traveling to a remote coastal community 150 miles from the U.S. border yesterday, President Felipe Calderón formally announced the bidding for Mexico’s $5 billion rail-and-seaport project at Punta Colonet.

Billed as the most ambitious infrastructure project of Calderón’s administration, the port would open a new trans-Pacific route for Asian products headed to the American heartland. It would capture some of the trade that now heads to ports at Long Beach and Los Angeles, which both face congestion.

The Punta Colonet container ship project “is one of those that truly transforms and revolutionizes the productivity of the country,” Calderón said in a speech at the port of Ensenada after his visit to Punta Colonet, a rural area with about 3,500 residents.

Mexico’s federal Secretariat of Communications and Transportation is expected to publish the bid specifications next week. The winning bidder, to be announced in 2009, would receive a 45-year concession to operate the port and rail line to the U.S. border.

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