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Former Congressman Jim Kolbe was named by Gov. Janet Napoltano to head a task force working to get a NAFTA superhighway built from Mexico through the Southwest and Mountain West to Canada. Kolbe, who retired at the end of last year, will chair the state’s Canamex Task Force. The Canamex highway is proposed to run from Guadalajara, Jalisco, to Edmonton, Alberta. Through Arizona it would use a combination of upgraded existing highways and new highways from Nogales to the Nevada state line, south of Las Vegas

THE NEW WORLD DISORDERMexican customs to be stationed in Kansas CityNew 'inland port' in heartland part of international plan that bypasses unions Posted: June 20, 20068:21 p.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com A Mexican customs office is being built in the U.S. heartland as part of a newly designed "inland port" facility that links with a Mexican seaport, an official in Kansas City confirms. Tasha Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council wrote to author and WND columnist Jerome Corsi to correct some details of a column on the subject, but she affirmed that a key purpose of the Kansas City...

PALMDALE - The City Council directed city staff Wednesday to explore the economic potential of establishing Palmdale as an "inland port." Among the questions to be answered are whether 200 to 450 acres with direct access to a rail line can be found for such a facility, whether that facility would bring opportunities for new jobs, whether any problems and costs associated with the facility's operation would exceed the benefit from those jobs, and whether the facility would help Palmdale obtain federal funds for the development of new infrastructure. As an inland port, the city would be in position to...