A Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) team, in cooperation with Customs and Border Protection agents, is investigating violation of cabotage rules by U.S. companies and foreign drivers otherwise engaged in cross-border trucking operations. Those rules prevent foreign nationals in the U.S. on B-1 business-visitor visas from competing with U.S. truckers on loads moving point to point in the United States.
Last week in Nogales, Ariz., HSI agents took along local reporters from ABC television affiliate KGUN 9 during an operation in an effort to shine a light on the issue. Deputy Special Agent in Charge Francisco Burrola of HSI out of Tuscon told Overdrive he hopes their enforcement work “sends shockwaves through the trucking industry, particularly along the Southwest border.” Continue reading “Cabotage rules enforcement spike ongoing from Southern border areas”
