Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway

Human Events ^ | June 12, 2006 | Jerome Corsi

[conservativecorner]

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.

As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.

Just examine the following websites to get a feel for the magnitude of NAFTA Super Highway planning that has been going on without any new congressional legislation directly authorizing the construction of the planned international corridor through the center of the country.

NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc., is a “non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.” Where does that sentence say anything about the USA? Still, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system.

Kansas City SmartPort Inc. is an “investor based organization supported by the public and private sector” to create the key hub on the NAFTA Super Highway. At the Kansas City SmartPort, the containers from the Far East can be transferred to trucks going east and west, dramatically reducing the ground transportation time dropping the containers off in Los Angeles or Long Beach involves for most of the country. A brochure on the SmartPort website describes the plan in glowing terms: “For those who live in Kansas City, the idea of receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may sound unlikely, but later this month that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality.”

The U.S. government has housed within the Department of Commerce (DOC) an “SPP office” that is dedicated to organizing the many working groups laboring within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to create the regulatory reality for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005. According to the DOC website, a U.S.-Mexico Joint Working Committee on Transportation Planning has finalized a plan such that “(m)ethods for detecting bottlenecks on the U.S.-Mexico border will be developed and low cost/high impact projects identified in bottleneck studies will be constructed or implemented.” The report notes that new SENTRI travel lanes on the Mexican border will be constructed this year. The border at Laredo should be reduced to an electronic speed bump for the Mexican trucks containing goods from the Far East to enter the U.S. on their way to the Kansas City SmartPort.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. A 4,000-page environmental impact statement has already been completed and public hearings are scheduled for five weeks, beginning next month, in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road. The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.

A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.

[Dog Gone]

I don't like your search criteria. It's about as useful as this one.

[1rudeboy]

I've been wondering. If the NAFTA supercorridor and illegal immigration are inextricably linked, then blocking it from being built should solve our illegal immigration problem, right? Right?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The Interstate Highway System is an American endeavor. The NAFTA superhighway, it would seem, is a North American project.

Now then, would you be so kind as to provide me with some links debunking Jerome Corsi's articles on the NAU. Thanks.

[1rudeboy]

You let Google do your thinking for you, and what do you get? Ralph Nader agit-prop.

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Well let me see, I'm glad I didn't know who they were. But you do. hmmmmmmm lol

[hedgetrimmer]

And, apparently, you or your evil twin brother are in DU somewhere

Thats really interesting.

You can understand why some people are suspicious of your apparent lack of knowledge, including me

Would you like a character reference? I should point out that character assassination is a technique pioneered in modern politics by Saul Alinksy.

[CWOJackson]

They're the same conspiracy.

[processing please hold]

Don't go away mad darlin' just go away.

[1rudeboy]

Well let me see, I'm glad I didn't know who they were.

Yet you cited them as an authority. Joke's on you.

[Texasforever]

Would you like a character reference? I should point out that character assassination is a technique pioneered in modern politics by Saul Alinksy.

I think you are in a round room looking for a corner. Your posting history on DU is an exact reflection of your posting history on FR. At both sites you are rabidly anti-Bush/GOP, you are rabidly protectionist ala Dennis Kucinch who you supported on DU complete with your cute little pretzel avatar and you are very into conspiracy theories. You are a DU troll.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I already did, a few days ago on another Corsi thread that was almost the same article as this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645220/posts?page=55#55

[nicmarlo]

You were pinged to links full of articles and information readily available at:

The White House, CFR, the U.S. Department of State, SPP.gov, the Commission for Labor Cooperation, the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation, the North American Development Bank (of which Condi Rice is a Board Member), North America's SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO), the North American Inland Port Network (NAIPN), the Union-Tribune, the Hutchison Ports Holdings Groupand the 2006 Texas Republican Party Platform among others.

Not only do you mock the messengers, you somehow think your opinions, which contradict the articles found in black and white at the above sources, is somehow more credible.

I think not.

[CWOJackson]

Yep, exact same graphic under the same name.

[nicmarlo]

yw!

[Dog Gone]

Don't go away mad darlin' just go away.

Ladies first, of course.

[CWOJackson]

You can cut and paste anything you want from those source...you could probably even make a case that you're semi-sane. But as you say, I think not.

[nicmarlo]

You have yet to go to DIRECTLY to the sources from which I provided a link (you know, DIRECTLY to their websites).

You think I should cut and paste whole websites on FR? Surely, you jest.

All you need to do, really, is read the documents found at the direct sources, you know, the one's I linked you to.

You know, those "direct sources" you always JUST HAVE TO HAVE otherwise it's just not true?

[Texasforever]

Not only do you mock the messengers, you somehow think your opinions, which contradict the articles found in black and white at the above sources, is somehow more credible.

Look, many things in "black and white" are just the fevered mutterings of deranged conspiracy nuts. It is an absolutely futile endeavor to try to debate the merits since with every rebuttal the goal post just gets moved.

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Well do you trust...Questia the world's largest online Library or are they commies too?

[nicmarlo]

Go to the DIRECT SOURCES to which I linked.

Do you REALLY want me to post ENTIRE ARTICLES right on this thread, to EACH AND EVERY article I cited and linked to?

I will. Really.

But you'd no more read it in FR than you will at the direct source.