"the NAFTA import boom, shifted to ports in California where the chinese stuff come in."
No, just China crap, not Nafta.
Even so, some of that Asian freight is being re-routed through Mexico where it's still cheaper and faster to offload, put it on rail and bring it into the states. Strikes by the stevadores and outrageous wages being paid out there are making it so......guy gets $90.00 for carrying a clipboard and counting containers!
The new road from the Gulf of California to the SW Tex border will be called La Entrada al Pacifico