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DEBATE * USA - Mexican's trucks
Experts worry trucks from Mexico may be at risk for attack
Coatzacoalcos,Mexico -McClatchy Washington Bureau (USA), by Kevin G. Hall -9 Mar 2007: -- It's not just oil terminals and tankers in Mexico that create security concerns for the United States. Since Sept. 11, U.S. security experts have worried that Mexico could be used to smuggle weapons or bombs into the United States... Mexican seaports often are used to transship cargo, meaning that containers from a third country are unloaded there, then placed on another ship bound for the United States or transferred to rail cars and trucks to cross the 2,000-mile-long land border. As many as 9,000 trucks cross from Mexico into the United States daily through a single border crossing point, at Laredo, Texas... An internal document from a major U.S. trucking company, which McClatchy obtained, highlights those risks... It details how inspectors didn't detect that a seal on a container that was hauled from Mexico's state of Puebla to the U.S. Midwest had been broken until the container reached Dolton, Ill...
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