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April 24, 2007 |
Teamsters Sue to Stop Dangerous Plan to Open Border to Unsafe Mexican Trucks
Miscellaneous
WASHINGTON, April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Teamsters Union has
filed a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's illegal pilot program
authorizing unsafe Mexican trucks to operate freely in the United States. |
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April 23, 2007 |
NAFTA Superhighway hits pothole
Worldnet Daily
The Texas legislature moved closer to blocking the Trans-Texas Corridor last week with a bill that would place a two-year moratorium all public-private partnerships that would involve the construction of new toll roads financed and operated by private foreign investment groups. |
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April 23, 2007 |
Group protests Mexican truck project
BusinessWeek
Truckers and anti-illegal immigration forces joined hands at the Capitol on Monday to protest a Bush administration plan to let Mexican trucks haul freight deep into the United States. |
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April 12, 2007 |
Mexican truck stampede to hit U.S.!
Worldnet Daily
Despite congressional opposition, the Bush administration is fully committed to beginning within weeks a pilot test that will allow Mexican trucks to operate freely across the U.S. |
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April 09, 2007 |
Perry decries ban on private toll road contracts
Austin American-Statesman
Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday called in backup — U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters — to urge the Legislature to stop something that key legislators have already effectively bottled up: a two-year ban on private toll road leases. |
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March 29, 2007 |
Private tollway contract a done deal
Corridor Watch
The Texas Department of Transportation and Cintra-Zachry last week quietly signed a final contract for the company to build and operate the Texas 130 tollway southeast of Austin for 50 years. |
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March 25, 2007 |
'Don't pave our land' Farm Bureau pleads
Worldnet Daily
Texas farmers are stepping up their opposition to the Trans-Texas Corridor, a massive highway project that ultimately could take about half a million acres of the state out of agricultural production – and according to opponents possibly hasten the advent of a North American Union. |
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March 23, 2007 |
Congress stalls Mexican-trucks plan
Arizona Daily Star
WASHINGTON — Mexican trucks could have to wait longer than anticipated to haul freight deep into the United States. The Bush administration in February announced that it would soon allow 100 Mexican trucking companies to travel beyond the current 20-mile limit for a one-year pilot project. |
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March 23, 2007 |
Big Easy to receive mega-ships from China
Worldnet Daily
In a development that further reconfigures the U.S. commercial transportation network into international free trade structures, the Port of New Orleans is positioning itself to receive containers from China through the Panama Canal, taking advantage of links to emerging NAFTA superhighways. |
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March 23, 2007 |
Illegal immigrants allowed at least five strikes
Houston Chronicle
Documents released in the controversy about eight fired U.S. attorneys show that federal prosecutors in Texas generally have declined to bring criminal charges against illegal immigrants caught crossing the border — until at least their sixth arrest. |
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