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.
“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.
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?
America won’t be able to benefit from Mexico’s prosperity!?!?
If they don’t buy American made goods we will have a trade deficit with them???
I think Mexico needs our stuff worse than we need their money.
That is like shooting their own foot off. Let them. We don't want mexican trucks on our roads until they play by the same rules we have to, it's that simple.
So smarten up Jim Kolbe, and put America first for a change. That means all Mexican trucks MUST be properly insured by a illegitimate insurer, there can be NO interstating by Mexican/foriegn truck drivers; Mexican drivers MUST have a proper drivers license, and that means proper training. They must NOT be criminals. They may only drive 10 hours in accordance with the regulations our truck drivers have to follow. Proper border inspection station should be in place BEFORE the flood gates are opened to prevent semi loads of illegals and their complete amphetamine drug labs from entering the country.
Retaliate?? What are they going to do, stop sending cheap labor over the border?!
Let’s all be honest about the opposition to this.
Mexico has swarmed us with invaders who are subsidized by us taxpayers while sending 10’s of billions of dollars back home.
They are prolific and generally successful in their attemts to ship drugs accross the border.
They weren’t with us on Iraq and sympathize with the Pali’s.
And, you can bet bet this is a one-way street in that few US trucks will be able to safely enter Mexico.
We don’t trust them and they haven’t given us any reason to do so.
This kinda feels like a slap in the face.
Kolbe was recently appointed to chair the Canamex Corridor Task Force by Gov. Janet Napolitano. The corridor, which runs from Mexico City through Tucson north to Edmonton, Alberta, is a federally designated "high priority" route for the movement of trade.
It amazes me how these politicians "know what's better" for our country, than it's own citizens. >:(