Mexico could retaliate if U.S. blocks trucks, Kolbe warns

Arizona Daily Star ^ | Novembere 30 2007 | Gabriela Rico

[danmar]

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.

So, according to this moron, we should drop our trousers and bend over, because the Mexicans are mad and blackmailing us.
And to make the situation worse, I understand he is a Republican?!

Well if the Mexicans are so stupid, let them do it and see what happens! A third world dump like Mexico, has no leverage against the Ol'Uncle Sam.
What they want to boycott, the production of corn tortilla and squalor they bring with them in our cities?
I'll go with that!

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Oh horsefeathers.

What are they going to do?

Stop sending illegal workers?

Get a grip. We need to start standing up for America.

We should be already. Hard to believe how far we’ve fallen.

[Plains Drifter]

Yeah, what are they going to do, not let us upholster our cars in Tijuana? Not bring their sick from Tijuana to our hospitals? Shut down the wire transfers of money coming from America to Mexico? Not take free handouts from the Otay Water District in San Diego of piping for their water lines and sewers? Or maybe Mexico will get pissed off and quit digging those free tunnels under our borders. American trucks cannot cross the Mexican border and go south unless you as an American company owner take on a Mexican national as a business partner. Think about that.

[gaijin]

Yes, it is. It is the successor to the Predator. This one is the Reaper, and it's about 3 to 4 times as fast as the original. It is highly persistent --can stay over the target for 3/4 of a day. It is also very cheap to operate, efficient, and if it crashes, no pilot is killed.

It was more or less born to do border enforcement, although they (the Reapers) are not currently fielded in that capacity.

[o_zarkman44]

True. But money sent from the USA to Mexico by illegal immigrants (and legal ones) is the leading source of GNP for the Mexican economy.
Without that income, Mexico will falter. Oil will be the only dependable income left.

We have to get over the fear of oil being used as a weapon.
That prospect is dangled over us with every international incident. It is being used as leverage. We need to tough it up or we will never be able to stand on our own ever again.

Mexico has far much more to lose by trying to manipulate us and failing then we have to lose. Frankly, losing 14 million illegal immigrants would help our economy.

[Plains Drifter]

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