Bravo, Mr. Perfecto
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Has anybody ever dealt with a Mexican Insurance Company ?
Yeah it's not really a problem, as long as you take the 5 minutes to find out what the laws and requirements of drivers are in Mexico
This piece is basically a scare tactic, and total crap news reporting. Listen carefully and you'll see what I mean.
1. They lead off with this lady that lost her dad who "in a collision with a tractor trailer" to draw you in. Sob story, but not really relevent (would have been better to hear she was involved in the trcuking industry or owned a trucking company, but that doesn't tug at the heart and cloud the mind as much.
2. This program will open the door for "hundreds of trucks" to enter the US. Not hundreds of trucking firms or corporations. Just trucks. Even if you assume the maximum number of trucks that's 999, that is still nothing compared to the vast number of trucking and shipping trucks in one state, let alone the entire nation. It will never compete economically, unless it was openned to all trucks, not just these select ones.
3. The politician mentions that these trucks could come in with "10's of millions of illegal drugs." 2 things wrong with that, first it assumes that mexico's major import to the U.S. is illegal drugs......bzzzzzt, wrong, we make plenty of drugs on our own, and mexico has plenty of legit stuff (crappy quality or not) to import. And second
NO DRUG DEALER CAPABLE OF CREATING THAT MUCH PRODUCT IS THAT DUMB!!!!!! For anyone that has gone throught the border of mexico, they know that every car rolls past the equivalent of an
x-ray machine that looks in your car. It's VERY easy to see through a large truck since there aren't odd shapes placed cloesly together as in a van or passenger vehicle. If someone is attempting to ship drugs in a large container truck, then they deserve to get caught.
4. The politician also mentions that we don't have access to information as to whether the person in the truck has been caught for drugs 4 or 5 times in Mexico. Only drug kingpins get away with being caught that many times, it doesn't matter what country you are in. And if the person had attempted it in the U.S. already they would infact have a record. Even more so, someone suspected of something like that would be pretty easy for the U.S. to acquire information about, they'd simply ask the mexican government for info and chances are Mexico would give it to them.
Think of that guy that runs to mexico to escape his crime in the U.S. (possibly holding his own child at knife point, ie. cops) Know what happens? the mexican border patrol meet him 10 feet within Mexico, arrest him and hand him back to the U.S. The only way to "escape" to Mexico is to disappear from the map, not just simply cross the borderline.
Finally, this doesn't seem very different from what already goes on now. Goods are brought in from Mexico, and trucks are going back and forth across the Mexican-American border all the time, legitimately, and with minimal problems.
This program may have more to it, but the reporting is so terrible it really doesn't give a person any kind of idea what this program/legislation (sp?) is about. Boo this video.......who knows about the program.
