The truck stops here: driving while Mexican.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Citings - Brief article

THE NAFTA superhighway feared by conspiracy theorists has yet to materialize, but nativists can take comfort in one fact: If the superhighway does come, there won't be any Mexicans driving on it.

The $410 billion spending bill signed into law on March II contains language that will keep all Mexican truckers from driving in the United States. Truckers for U.S. and Mexican companies were supposed to be able to make deliveries in each other's countries after the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect. Instead, thanks to persistent opposition from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Mexican truckers are forced to stop in a "commercial zone" within 20 miles of the border and reload their goods...