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Doubtful if border could open by June
The Department of Transportation has finalized the rules under which it would allow Mexican trucks into the United States and sent them to the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for final review. Those rules are expected to be published this spring to meet President Bush's goal of opening the border by June.
Last fall, Congress passed an extensive list of conditions that the DOT must meet before it can open the border to Mexican trucks. These include setting up truck scales at every border, beefing up enforcement at every border crossing, as well as setting up a computer system to allow border officials to verify the validity of Mexican CDLs.
The
rules at OMB do not address these issues, and critics of the border
opening do not see how the Bush administration can meet all of these
conditions by June.
--Paul Cullen Jr. (March/April print edition of LL, "Washington
Insider.")