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Condenzio said that in response to customer suggestions, recipes for salsas and calzones have already been altered and more staff have been assigned to the Mexican food stand...
...number of black students among the early admits rose from 43 last year to 60 this year; Mexican-Americans from 15 to 18, Hispanic-Americans from 20 to 26 and Puerto Ricans from 7 to 11. Five Native Americans were admitted both this year and last...
...average day, at least 4,000 Mexican trucks cross the Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge in downtown Laredo, where only 20 customs agents are available to work the import dock. Those agents have to inspect insurance, driver's licenses and immigration papers and look for narcotics and violations of trade-compliance laws. Checking a vehicle for faulty brakes or bald tires is way down the list and not necessarily a customs agent's responsibility, according to chief inspector David Higgerson, the cargo director for U.S. Customs in southern Texas...
Serious tragedies occur almost weekly. Last September, just north of the border, a Mexican driver was killed when a spark caused by carelessness ignited his tanker filled with jet fuel. Texas officials recently investigated a sulfuric-acid spill in Laredo involving a 16-year-old driver with no insurance and no shipping papers. His rig had faulty brakes; nine of its 18 tires were bald. It is not uncommon to find several Mexican truck drivers carrying insurance cards with the same name and policy number...
...Administration dismisses the alarms, saying there will be no flood of Mexican trucks. Arnold Levine, director of the Department of Transportation's Office of International Transportation and Trade, acknowledges some of the problems but says the border opening "will allow truckers to improve efficiency and reduce empty loads going back. This means there will actually be a need for fewer trucks." Texas officials say Washington doesn't realize the danger, and will only get it when a truck hits a school bus. However, Texas is leery of discouraging transborder commerce with local legislation...