09/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 19:07 on 09/08/2008 Comments Off
San Antonio Express News Editorial - U.S. should honor trucking provision

The Senate and the House approved the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. If a nation decides to withdraw from NAFTA, the agreement specifies a six-month notification process. A president, with the support of Congress, can initiate this process. And a president, with the support of Congress, can attempt to renegotiate NAFTA. What a president and Congress can’t do is willy-nilly abrogate provisions they decide are not to their liking. But that’s exactly what Congress has been trying to do for 15 years by obstructing a cross-border trucking provision.

 
 24/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:33 on 24/05/2008 2 Responses »

Authorities took a Smithway Motor Express driver into custody after several undocumented immigrants were found inside his 18-wheeler parked at a South Side convenience store. Undercover drug officers stumbled upon the 18-wheeler during a drug investigation Tuesday night, when they pulled over a man during drug bust at a Shell Gas Station in the 5800 block of South Pan Am Expressway. As police surrounded the man’s pickup truck, officers heard a noise coming from the nearby 18-wheeler and discovered seven illegal immigrants inside the cab of the truck. A store clerk told investigators, the big rig had been parked at ….Read More

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