In 2006, Congress approved the Safe Port Act – requiring the Secretary of Homeland Security to draft guidelines for federal, state and local law enforcement related to cross-border trucking and that department’s jurisdiction “no later than April 2008.”
Nearly four years later, the cross-border guidelines have yet to be presented.
U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-NY, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, asked DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano Wednesday to answer several questions about Mexican trucking, including whether the secretary can provide a timeline for when she expects the department to issue the guidelines.