Posted on 12/01/2007 9:05:16 AM PST by yorkie
Economic retaliation from Mexico is a real threat if U.S. lawmakers repeal a provision that allows Mexican truckers access to the U.S. interior, according to former U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe.
"If Congress succeeds in blocking (the program) I believe Mexico could retaliate, as they are entitled to do," the Arizona Republican told members of the Southern Arizona Logistics Education Organization in Tucson on Thursday.
Kolbe, who retired at the beginning of the year after 11 terms in Congress, is the new chairman of the Canamex Corridor Task Force and part of a three-member committee appointed to monitor the cross-border truck program, which has faced strong opposition from some trucking union members and politicians.
He warned that if our southern neighbors "lose patience," U.S. companies could face higher tariffs on trade entering Mexico.
"It's not an idle threat," Kolbe said. "And it sends a bad message to Mexico and Latin America about how seriously we take our obligations."
The trucking program, a provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, began in September. Before that, Mexican trucks were restricted to driving within a commercial border zone.
Attempts by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to block the entry of Mexican trucks into the U.S. failed. The Senate then approved a proposal prohibiting the Transportation Department from spending money on the program, but it continues while Congress debates a larger transportation bill that contains the provision.
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Jim Kolbe ... didn’t he used to be on our side?
Almost 300 million guns vs. what?
Mexico will retaliate by sending all their unemployed across the border to look for jobs..... wait, they already do that.
By refusing to send Mexicans to the US? Not likely.
How about we counter that by BLOCK any money transfers to Mexico from all these illegals sending money home to relatives? MMM?
Mexico is gonna do what Mexico is gonna do.
I sometimes think Mexico understands national sovereignty better than we do.
I talk to lots of truckers. Not one of them has any interest in driving their rig through Mexico. They provide a very large, defenseless target to the bad guys. That, to me, says volumes.
blocking.....yikes.
There are roughly 2 million American truck drivers, and most of them vote Republican. You don’t really want to piss them off.
Their only form of entertainment is the AM radio, we know exactly what is going on.
“Economic retaliation from Mexico is a real threat”
How are they going to do this, by sending 20 million more illegals that we will have to pay for?
Kolbe is trying to keep his job, the traitorous swine.
I guess it’s okay for the hypocrisy of Mexico to be allowed to continue by encouraging their own beloved citizens to break our immigration laws and allow entrance (escape?)of their illegals into the U.S. (along with billions of dollars annually in illegal drugs that cause untold crime and drug related deaths to U.S. citizens). What horse crap. Finish building the wall, cut off taxpayer funded support system to illegals to survive here, jail and fine employers who hire them and then we’ll talk about renegging on our agreement obligations. We won’t have to if we bothered to enforce the laws on our books and the obligations to U.S. taxpayers. Politicians on both sides of the border have done a wonderful job of betraying U.S. citizens (except those who love to exploit, cheap, illegal labor).
Gosh, what is Mexico going to do to us economically?? Send up more illegal immigrunts??
All we have to do to Mexico is block wire transfers of money from illegals in America back to Mexico. Their economy would crumble.
Mexico is gonna do what Mexico is gonna do.
I sometimes think Mexico understands national sovereignty better than we do.
I talk to lots of truckers. Not one of them has any interest in driving their rig through Mexico. They provide a very large, defenseless target to the bad guys. That, to me, says volumes.
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I’ve refused to go into Mexico about 4 times.
I have no problem with going into Canada, other then I CANT READ FRENCH!
Then we retaliate by freezing all electronic money transfers to Mexico.
OK. Your turn Mexico.
“If Congress succeeds in blocking (the program) I believe Mexico could retaliate, as they are entitled to do,”
He’s right, they have the right to retaliate.........as do we, against the invasion of our country.
Too bad none of our politicians have the guts to retaliate against Mexico. Stop sending them foreign aid and send all their illegals home....see who yells ‘give’ first.
Log books
Drug tests
Chimerical Drivers Licensees
Background checks
Histories of driving record violations
Physical examination requirements....
And ON and ON.
And for some reason he thinks we should be not worried about Mexican truck drivers?
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