Navarrette – A two-way street on gunrunning

Mar 072009
 
 07/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 17:23 on 07/03/2009 Comments Off
Navarrette - A two-way street on gunrunning

It’s time for the American people to stop living in a state of denial and get serious about stopping gun shipments into Mexico. Mexico’s ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan, has noted that as many as 2,000 weapons enter Mexico from the United States every day – most of them through Texas and Arizona, and many of them purchased legally at gun shows and gun stores. Many of the transactions come in “straw purchases,” where drug traffickers use Americans – including friends and relatives – to buy guns. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives estimates that 90 ….Read More

Ruben Navarrette – A fair deal for Mexico’s truckers

Nov 272007
 
 27/11/2007  Posted by PMC at 19:44 on 27/11/2007 Comments Off

Editors Note: Relevant then, even more so now. I’ve hit a fork in the road in my thinking concerning the unrelenting campaign by the Teamsters to deny Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways. On the one hand, I recognize that these efforts are deplorable and destructive. They’ve tarnished the international reputation of the United States as a trading partner; highways in Mexico, Canada and the United States are supposed to be open to truckers from all three countries under the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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