Mexico border operations

Seizures of Rohypnol in the United States have declined over subsequent years, with just under 5,000 pills being seized by the DEA in 2000. In May 2000, DEA agents seized approximately 900 pills of Rohypnol that were hidden in a car crossing the border from Mexico into Texas. A few months later, a Tijuana, Mexico, pharmacy operator was arrested by the DEA for illegally shipping Rohypnol pills from a Mexican pharmacy to nearby San Ysidro—a town minutes north of Tijuana in southern California. 

A person who operates as a foreign motor carrier or foreign motor private carrier without authority, before the implementation of the land transportation provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement, outside the boundaries of a commercial zone along the United States-Mexico border. A maximum penalty of 11,000 for an intentional violation and a maximum penalty of 32,500 for a pattern of intentional violations. 

Form OP-1 (MX) — Application to Register Mexican Motor Carriers for Motor Carrier Authority to Operate Beyond U.S. Municipalities and Commercial Zones on the U.S.-Mexico Border ... 

The safety audit is also used to assess the basic safety management controls of Mexico-domiciled applicants for provisional operating authority to operate beyond United States municipalities and commercial zones on the United States-Mexico border under 365.507. 

New Mexico s San Juan Gas Plant is one of the United States newest and largest natural gas liquids recovery plant. Commissioned in November 1986, its levels of productivity are high by industry standards. Located near Bloomfield, New Mexico, just south of tlie Colorado border, the plant is jointly owned by Conoco Inc. (then a subsidiary of the DuPont Company) and Tenneco Inc., both of Houston. It is operated by Conoco and is named after its location in the San Juan basin, an area of oil, gas, and coal production. 

September 21 The U.S. Customs Department launches Operation Intercept. For a period of two weeks every vehicle crossing the border between the United States and Mexico is searched. Traffic bogs down for miles, and businesses on both sides of the border are severely impacted. The operation is stopped, but Mexico agrees to more aggressively pursue marijuana traffickers. 

Mexico to inform one another about undercover operations in the border area. It arose from Mexican anger over the U.S. undercover Operation Casablanca in 1998. 

Before a Mexico-domiciled motor carrier of property or passengers begins operations in interstate commerce between Mexico and points in the United States beyond the mrmicipalities and commercial zones along the United States-Mexico international border, it must apply with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) for operating authority. 

If the FMCSA grants provisional operating authority to the applicant, it will assign a distinctive USDOT number that identifies the motor carrier as authorized to operate beyond the municipalities in the United States on the U.S.-Mexico international border and beyond the commercial zones of such municipalities. 

CFR 368 — Application for a certificate of registration to operate in municipalities in the United States on the United States-Mexico international border or within commercial zones of such... 

Exception — For a period of 3 years, Mexico-domiciled carriers that have been granted permanent operating authority will still be required to ensure that all their vehicles operating beyond the border zone display a currently valid Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) decal. Decals are vahd for 90 days. 

Since removal of the duties on Mexican labor, the consumer has netted a 3 to 4 percent price reduction net gain. However, the operations of the plants in Mexico have not changed much. What has changed, as noted earlier, is the amount of time that border crossings take. 

Pash joined the U.S. G-2 Army Intelligence reserves as a second lieutenant in 1930. During the early part of World War II, he oversaw some U.S. Army intelligence-gathering operations along the border with Mexico whose purpose was to uncover possible Japanese activities to secure landing sites for their aircraft and submarines for an attack on the continental United States. Pash was later made responsible for the security of the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, which performed work for the Manhattan Project. Leslie R. Groves, the head of the project, recommended Pash to head the ALSOS Mission. 

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