U.S. Customs, INS Laws at Odds
Federal regulations on foreign drivers are not in harmony, and it will take an act of Congress to let Canadian truck drivers to make domestic deliveries in the United States, according to an Immigration and Naturalization Service official.
“We operate under different missions,” she said about the Immigration and Naturalization Act, which covers several workforce issues ("INS Deportations Anger Canadian Trucking," 12-6, p. 3).
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Linda Loveless, chief inspector for INS, said Customs Service regulations on freight and the movement of equipment are more flexible than the laws that govern her agency’s dealing with foreigners.
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Under the law, Canadian drivers cannot make point-to-point deliveries within the United States. Transportation operating procedures under the North American Free Trade Agreement — approved in 1994 — also restrict such deliveries within a country by a citizen of a different country, Loveless said.
