I am no Obama fan, but did anyone tell the writer that this is all about the NAFTA treaty that our Senate approved years ago?
From the article: “Don’t let anybody get by with saying that NAFTA requires us to admit Mexican trucks because it’s a treaty. It isn’t — NAFTA never complied with the treaty provision in the U.S. Constitution and is merely a law passed by Congress that can be changed or overturned.”
I have not so fond mmeories of sharing the roads with Mexican truckers....crappy, uncautious drivers.
NAFTA was passed by a margin of 51-49 or something like that. If it were a treaty, that would mean it FAILED. Treaties require 2/3 of the Senate to confirm.
Yes, you are correct. Certainly defies the will of the American people, but is something we agreed to in NAFTA 20 yrs. ago. The writer is Phyllis Schlafly who certainly knows better.
The man says NAFTA is a statutory, not a treaty, agreement.
I'm going to have to look into it. If NAFTA is only a statute, then things just got more interesting.