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Mexico could retaliate if U.S. blocks trucks, Kolbe warns
Arizona Daily Star ^ | Novembere 30 2007 | Gabriela Rico

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; kolbe; transporation; trucking
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To: yorkie

“If Congress succeeds in blocking (the program) I believe Mexico could retaliate, as they are entitled to do,”

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Please share with us oh wise and magnificent “Leader”
Just what Mexico will “retaliate” with?

A little less Cocaine for our Congressmen, Senators and their coke whores?

A few less Criminal Aliens to undercut the value of Labor in the US?

A few less Criminal Alien crack dealers, robbers, rapists and murderers?

Or are you threatening to send more...to cooperate more fully with the drug smugglers and the Coyotes?

How?

We so need legions of semi and illiterate Mexican Truck Drivers earing $20 a day each running 24/7 Three to a Cab racing up and down our American Highways and byways. Running into school buses, driving cars off the road killing American families and kids... all in a days work.

Why?

Because they like you great “Leader” are not of us and do not give a da^n about our people.

You and the scum you are whoring for will retaliate?

Do your worst.

W


81 posted on 12/01/2007 10:34:24 AM PST by WLR (Defeating Liberalism and The East since 500 BC Iran delinda est.)
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To: yorkie

Wow I am so frickin scared. Mexico may retaliate!

Ay yi yi!


82 posted on 12/01/2007 10:37:56 AM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: yorkie

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat question!!!!!!!!!


83 posted on 12/01/2007 10:39:53 AM PST by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: yorkie

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat question!!!!!!!!!


84 posted on 12/01/2007 10:43:16 AM PST by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: upchuck

“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.”

Perhaps we should provide convoy security until the region is pacified. Why Not? We do it in Iraq.


85 posted on 12/01/2007 10:45:27 AM PST by dljordan
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To: yorkie

“Remember the Alamo” updated for today’s issues...


86 posted on 12/01/2007 10:46:37 AM PST by yield 2 the right
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To: All

Anyone understand the political ramifications of this?

Offshoring and outsourcing is indirect. The Mexican truck thing has a direct, tangible, and immediate effect on jobs.

There is no planning, no building of infrastructure, no building factories, no building office buildings, no hiring of new workers, things which can take months and years for the effects of offshoring and outsourcing to take place.

100,000 Mexican trucks can roll across the border in one day. The effect on jobs will be direct, tangible, and immediate. This is political suicide.

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/facts-research/facts-figures/analysis-statistics/driverfacts.htm

8.5 million registered large trucks.

11.4 million CDL holders (including invalid, revoked, suspended) I’m one of those, I didn’t do the required 6 month physical.

There is probably twice that amount of former drivers who have a pretty strong opinion about Mexican trucks. It could be a good 20 million potential voters.


87 posted on 12/01/2007 10:56:09 AM PST by Hunterite
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To: All
Thank Rudy Giuliani----here's how Mexico will retaliate.

MAP OF TEXAS-CANADA-MEXICO TRADE CORRIDOR
BROKERED BY Bracewell & Giuliani in conjunction with Texas Gov Rick Perry
With Perry's help, Giuliani and the government forcibly took US properties from taxpayers via eminent domain and gave them to profit-making foreign entities.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY MAP----TERRORIST ENTRY POINTS
Giuliani's idea of "border security:" Take US properties from taxpayers via eminent domain and give them to foreign entities.

NEWS STORY Bracewell & Giuliani Firm Advises Cintra in First Privatization of Toll Road in Texas DALLAS (March 1, 2007) Bracewell & Giuliani LLP (Rudy's Texas-based law firm with global connections) advised Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish transportation company, in its successful bid to develop State Highway 121 into a toll road through Collin and Denton counties ("trade road" is four football fields wide). The award to Cintra, approved by the Texas Transportation Commission, is the first privatization of a Texas toll road. Bracewell is acting as project counsel to Cintra with respect to the 50-year concession from the Texas Department of Transportation. Cintra will pay a $2.1 billion upfront and annual lease payments totaling $700 million. "Cintra was awarded this project because of its proven expertise and competitive proposal," said Thomas O. Moore, partner with Bracewell & Giuliani. "This is the largest transportation deal of 2007. This is one of only five deals in the country."

CONSTRUCTON OF TRADE ROAD IN MEXICO

DO VOTERS IN FLORIDA, CALIFORNIA, IOWA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, MICHIGAN
AND WYOMING KNOW IF GIULIANI HAS SIMILAR PLANS FOR THEIR HIGHWAYS?

88 posted on 12/01/2007 10:57:14 AM PST by Liz (Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
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To: o_zarkman44
Gosh, what is Mexico going to do to us economically?? Send up more illegal immigrunts??

Mexico is one of our top four suppliers of oil. Just a thought...

89 posted on 12/01/2007 11:08:09 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: yorkie
"Yeah Mexican President Calderon, while your at it, stop sending Afghan Jihadi's across the border to attack our military bases....then we can talk about mechanical and driver training requirements for any trucks we let you send across the border".

I'll vote for any candidate that says this before the election!!

90 posted on 12/01/2007 11:17:46 AM PST by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out Of Qurans)
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To: yorkie

1st thing ya gotta understand is that President G.W. Bush is so far up Mexicos butt it is stupid.
Just look at the border agents in jail for doing their jobs where it comes to that drug dealer.
Look at his refusal to build the damn fence.
Look at his refusal to throw out illegals.
I have lost so much respect for him as a result of his being a Mexico butt boy.


92 posted on 12/01/2007 11:41:27 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Joe Boucher
Anyone remember this?

President George W. Bush - Oath of Office - 2004

93 posted on 12/01/2007 11:47:44 AM PST by yorkie
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To: Nathan Zachary; All
This isn't just a U.S. vs. Mexico dispute here. It also involves major U.S. trucking companies (who support the plan to allow Mexican trucks into the U.S.) vs. independent owner-operators (who are adamantly opposed to it).

What sometimes gets lost in the shuffle here is that the cross-border trucking program was a specific provision of NAFTA -- which means the U.S. really isn't on solid legal grounds to prevent its implementation.

94 posted on 12/01/2007 11:57:42 AM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine; All
Who really has more to lose? Bring it on.

FWIW, Mexico has surpassed Saudi Arabia on the list of foreign suppliers of oil to the U.S. It is now #2 on the list (behind Canada).

This is one big reason why the U.S. has a trade deficit with Mexico, BTW.

95 posted on 12/01/2007 12:01:38 PM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: yorkie

The Canamex Corridor runs from the port of Hermanosilla (s.i.c.?) Mexico to Edmonton, Alberta.... crossing into the U.S. at Nogales, AZ, thru Salt Lake City, UT, to Sweetgrass, MT then into Canada.

www.canamex.org

or ‘google’ canamex corridor task force

Just beneath the top banner on their webpage is a drop-down menu for various parts of that route.


96 posted on 12/01/2007 12:27:20 PM PST by NDNBill (Now all they need is some ZZ Top drivin' music.)
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To: Alberta's Child
What sometimes gets lost in the shuffle here is that the cross-border trucking program was a specific provision of NAFTA -- which means the U.S. really isn't on solid legal grounds to prevent its implementation.

That is not true. NAFTA is a law not a treaty. Congress can alter or abolish any previous law buy passing a new one. It can also effectively neuter a previously passed law by refusing to fund its enforcement.

97 posted on 12/01/2007 12:30:27 PM PST by Colorado Buckeye (It's the culture stupid!)
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To: Hop A Long Cassidy

Oh noez!


98 posted on 12/01/2007 2:12:52 PM PST by wastedyears (One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
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To: yorkie

99 posted on 12/01/2007 3:38:27 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Gaijin - is that a drone?


100 posted on 12/01/2007 4:07:22 PM PST by yorkie
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