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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
As I understand it, that customs facility will be only for traffic bound for Mexico.

The Trans-Texas Corridor will be the first leg of what has been dubbed the NAFTA Super Highway to go through heartland America all the way to Canada. This would be a major lifeline of the plan to merge the United States into a North American Community.

Plans are already locked in for Kansas City Southern de Mexico Railroad to bring Chinese goods in sealed cargo containers from the southern Mexican port of Lazaro Cardinas direct to Kansas City, Missouri. Mexican trucks will be able to drive more sealed containers up the fast lanes of the NAFTA Super Highway, inspected only electronically if at all, and making their first customs stop in Kansas City.

97 posted on 08/28/2006 12:33:51 AM PDT by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: AnimalLover

Some additional input from the Yuma Sun

http://sun.yumasun.com/google/ysarchive22883.html

Following are a few paragraphs you will find of interest.
Take special note of the last one concerning Hutchison

Plans to build a large shipping port at Punta Colonet, Baja Calif. — about 130 miles south of Tijuana — could mean that a new rail line would run through Yuma to quickly move cargo from the port to the interior of the United States.

There have been discussions with landowners in the area about property acquisition, but the details, and whether the line will actually be built, remain up in the air.

The line would be used to send containers by rail from the Pacific Coast through Mexico and then north to Yuma to tie into the current Union Pacific tracks that run through the city. A right-of-way agent has been speaking to government and private industry in Yuma about the proposed line — to the dismay of some in the agriculture industry.

The agent declined to comment for the story, directing questions to Chris Peterson, the Union Pacific director of government affairs.


Peterson declined to comment on the use of eminent domain.

Union Pacific has been working on preliminary studies for several months, but the idea itself is relatively new. Peterson said there is a high demand for freight rail service and Union Pacific is hiring across its entire system.

The company has about 1200 employees in Arizona, with about 100 in Yuma. Peterson said the creation of the line would mean more jobs in this area, but it is far too early to even consider a timeline.


The new port in Mexico and recent expansions to the Ensenada port, which is 60 miles south of Tijuana, are a response to congestion involved in getting shipments in and out of the extremely busy American ports in southern California. An interview request made to Hutchison Port Holdings, which operates Ensenada and has discussed developing Punta Colonet, was not returned.

NOTE: Does Hutchison-Whampoa ring a bell? They are the
ones screening our cargo coming in on the east
coast. Remember the following:

Chinese firm
to scan cargo
Hired to operate U.S. nuke detector,
chairman tied to communist regime
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49430







98 posted on 08/28/2006 12:45:30 AM PDT by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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