The Bush administration suffered a setback in its reckless pursuit of Latinizing America. As if adding 20 million illegal aliens into the American mix did not do enough damage, Bush is seeking to open US roads to unimpeded Mexican trucking. Fortunately, the Democratic Congress slowed him down after a Mexican truck carrying explosive blew up killing dozens. The idiots in the administration oppose any restrictions on the free flow of Mexican trucks across the border. No doubt al Qaeda is rooting for the Bush plan.

The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto the broad transportation bill because it would spend more money than President George W. Bush requested. It said the administration opposes any restrictions on the cross-border trucking program.

The administration said “it has the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a safe and secure program.”

A tractor-trailer loaded with explosives blew up in a huge fireball on Monday after hitting a pickup truck in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. At least 29 people were killed.

Senator Jon Kyl (R-Arizona) joined the idiots in the administration. According to Kyl, economic considerations override mundane issues like safety and security. Safety from third world regulated equipment and skills. Security from very clever terrorists hiding in the trailer or actually driving the truck after getting training and licenses in Mexico City.

The pilot program involves both Mexican trucks operating in the United States and U.S. trucks being allowed to operate in Mexico, within limits on both sides.

Arizona Republican Sen. John Kyl, defending the program in Senate floor debate, said the test would involve a maximum of 100 Mexican companies and 500 to 600 trucks on U.S. roads.

“It is worth giving this program a chance … It is much more efficient and much cheaper for American consumers if those Mexican trucks can travel in the United States,” Kyl said.

Missouri Republican Christopher Bond said, “There is some strong support for allowing these trucks to run in the United States.” He cited a letter of support for the program from agribusiness interests that said NAFTA promises the program.

John Hill, an administrator in the Transportation Department, called the vote to block the program “a sad victory for the politics of fear and protectionism.”

Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown compared pressure to open up U.S. roads to Mexican trucks to the kind of free-trade pressures that opened U.S. markets to tainted food and toys from China “because it serves multinational corporations.”