[purpleraine]

I think there’s another plot afoot. Close the major American ports, unload in Mexico and truck north from Mexico. Longshoremen out of work.

[Liz]

Good point——and Perry and Giuliani get a cut of everything-—under the table.

[deport]

Some proposals include the Baja California section of Mexico, another further south and potential on the Gulf of Mexico side especially when and if the Panama Canal is widened. Walmart has already moved a huge container operation into the Port of Houston complex and uses the Panama Canal even though it is longer sea time and smaller ships.

[muawiyah]

The longshoreman story is another folk tale without foundation. We've got all the longshoremen employed at container ports. What we haven't got is any place to put more container ports. All our remaining shoreline is tied up for ecological, beauty or existing housing needs ~ most of it for the rich people who own the rest of the country too, so there's just no way we can have another port.

Mexico has some undeveloped shoreline. The idea is to trash Mexico's shore and save our own.