The whole NAFTA HIGHWAY hallucination is the most bizarre part of the story ~ I counted 35 different major multi-lane roads connecting Texas to Mexico just a few weeks ago.
Unless Texas is getting ready to rip up the roads and tear down the bridges I fail to see why anyone else should be concerned with another road down there.
In fact, I don't think Texas connects with the rest of the United States with as many roads as it has running to Mexico.
Their loyalty is suspect if all we do is check pavement.
I guess you haven’t heard/seen the mega-highway’s being started - far larger than current interstate highways.
“...I fail to see why anyone else should be concerned with another road down there”
I would agree if that road is just another road.
What I do find alarming is the notion of putting inland “ports” (with questionable sovereignty) along that new “just another road”.
It’s a Texas thing. You see, we still believe in private property and not letting the Gov run ruff shod over it’s people.
As far as the TX/MX border crossings, a lot of those have been shut down since 9-11. The major crossings are monitored by the BP. The TTC would use electronic monitoring (EasyPass) and certain frequent travelers would be able to cross unfettered.
As pointed out...those roads are not like what they are using GOVERNMENT to expropriate private land for a SPANISH special interest (foreign tollway business company) to build the new, TTC, TransTexas Corridor, a SUPER HIGHWAY of unparalleled dimensions. Those existing roads are also defended by the Border Patrol. This thing won't be.
Anyways, the Administration has been busy lying by being cute with language. Since THEY don't call what they are doing the "NAFTA SuperHighway" (Which every other sane person does) ...it "doesn't exist". But as the Congressman discovered when the DOT Secretary had to testify:
"The secretary of transportation came before our subcommittee," he explained, "and I had the opportunity to ask her some questions about the NAFTA Superhighway. Of course, she answered, 'There's no NAFTA Superhighway.' But then Mary Peters proceeded to discuss the road system that would come up from Mexico and go through the United States up into Canada.""So, I think that saying we're 'conspiracy theorists' or something like that is really just a play on words with the intent to demonize the opposition," Goode concluded.
BINGO! Bush has also been swift to demonize conservatives for being "soft bigots" "racist Bigots" "anti-woman Glass ceiling" enforcers, and "anti-Arab" and "just against brown people" and on and on...and use very close proxies when he doesn't feel safe in saying it himself against the American People: "The Loud People"...
Demonizing those of goodwill and different positions is a standard COMMUNIST LEFTIST TACTIC. And I will say point-blank...it's LYING and its UNCHRISTIAN.
It would be nice to shove all that tinfoil they claim that their opposition wears up where the sun doesn't shine in the trilateralist CFR proponents of the NAU scheme.