It's the docket number for the Transportation Department's official proposal to open the border to trucks coming from the war zone known as Mexico.
The proposal will be published in the Federal Register on Monday, if the government doesn't shut down. You have 30 days to tell them why this is the stupidest f#@&ing idea EVER. We'll let you know on Monday (if the government isn't shut down) how to send in your comments. But you'll have to include the docket number.
Here's one suggestion, just to get you going: Hundreds of border officials are being investigated for corruption. According to NBC News,
In the Mexican drug war, U.S. authorities are finding a disturbing trend: an increase in American law enforcement officials corrupted by wealthy Mexican criminals who pay them to look the other way as illegal drugs and immigrants flow north into the United States.Start drafting those comments now! The government has to respond to every single one, so let's keep 'em busy until the next millennium!
"It is the single most debilitating factor in successful law enforcement on the border, and we do a horrible job of weeding that corruption out,” says retired DEA supervisor Anthony Coulson.
In the last five years, nearly 80 U.S. Border Patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers have been arrested along the Mexican border, and according to federal authorities, hundreds more officials are under investigation.
