DEAR (MY CONGRESSMAN) GENE TAYLOR, SIR:

The United States Department of Transportation is poised to kick the border wide open to trucks from Mexico operating throughout the U.S. This will have a very real effect on all highway users.

DOT says safety and security programs are in place. This is a joke!

Truckers in the United States must hold a valid commercial driver's license with 10 years of driving history. For the Mexican equivalent, we won't know if these drivers are trained as truckers or terrorists.

United States truckers are required to be drug and alcohol tested and to follow hours of service regulations for driving time. No such regulations exist in Mexico.

DOT says every truck will be inspected at the border. Not likely. They inspect less than 4% right now. And what will these trucks haul into the US? Could be people or drugs or dirty bombs. We won't know.

Why the rush to open the border? The answer is money. The United States Chamber of Commerce believes we need more trucks and cheaper labor. So, safety is compromised and American drivers lose their jobs. Doesn't sound like anyone in this country wins.
Right now, there are definitely more questions than answers. And until the DOT can assure the public that Mexican trucks are just as safe as U.S. trucks, the border must stay closed.

Contact your elected officials today and tell them to keep the border closed!
I am very concerned about this problem,
I pray that you will inform the congress that you agree with my openion of this problem. We need "more" security not less on our borders. If one of these unprofessional tuckers who may or not be high on cocaine etc. could very possibly hit and kill a an innocent legal American citizen. Most likely he would only get deported and he most likely will not have insurance. this would be another burden on us the tax payers and the American public all together.
Your humble resident of Bay St. Louis,Mississippi.