[Ben Ficklin]

Before the recession, there were 12,000 trucks per day crossing the TexMex border. Whether or not the volume has returned to that level, I don't know. But it is no doubt a significant number.

The US, like the whole world, is expanding its transportation capacity to accomodate the rising level of international trade.

California wants to tap into Punta Colomet, Arizona into Guaymos, West Texas into Topolobampo, and lets not omit Cardenas, for everything east of the continental divide.

Many cities are seeking inland port status for US and Mexican seaports. Dallas seeks that staus for a Texas port, 4 mexican ports, as well as the Pannama Canal.

Pannama seeks to expand their canal, Nicaragua wants to build a new canal. And Canada is secretly hoping the Northwest Passage thaws.

OTOH, there are the populists, protectionists, isolationists, and natavists being led by a modern day William Jennings Brian.

You are in lockstep with the pacific ports labor union.

[dennisw]

The US, like the whole world, is expanding its transportation capacity to accomodate the rising level of international trade.

This means more Chinese crap coming in here but now via Mexico. This is not trade. This is idiocy when we run a trade deficit of 800 billion per year. It is unsustainable.
I wouldn't mind such NAFTA superhighways to Mexican seaports if our trade wasn't so out of wack

You are in lockstep with the pacific ports labor union.

Like I could give a flip
It's far better than treason against the sovereign nation of the United States of America