On Friday, a Mexican truck crossed the border at Laredo, TX and headed north along Interstate 35…the first, but certainly not the last to do so in years. Following a March 2011 meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, President Obama announced that Mexican trucks would once again, be rolling across the border into the interior of his country.
According to a provision in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the border was to be opened to Mexican truckers, bringing goods in from Central and South America as well as from Mexican ports.
In June 2006, Jerome Corsi writing for Human Events broke the story on the NAFTA super highway.
The proposed road would bring Mexican trucks over the border without a customs inspection until those trucks reach Kansas City. Corsi correctly characterized the border becoming simply a “speed bump” once the highway was finished. The road will cross the heartland of the U.S., eventually ending in Canada.
The potential for large shipments of drugs, illegal aliens, and even terrorists being carried in those trucks was tremendous. The NAFTA super highway is in fact a smuggler´s dream come true.
In 2007, the trucks began rolling.
Congress eventually ended the flow of the uninspected Mexican trucks into this country. However, Obama simply went to work on ways to repackage the program to make it more palatable to the American people.
The customs complex (known as Smart Port) in Kansas City is actually set to become a Mexican customs station. However, it is being built and maintained with funds collected from the taxpaying citizens of Kansas City. The station will reportedly cost at least $3 million.
In 2009, a description on the Smart Port website read: "For those who live in Kansas City, the idea of receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may sound unlikely, but that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality."
While only $2.5 million in federal dollars is reported to have been spent on this venture, considering the more than 6,000 earmarks in infamous 2006 $300 billion Highway Bill, it is really impossible to know the exact amount of taxpayer money which has been used on the project.
Of course, the culture of corruption in Washington makes a true accounting on any matter nearly impossible.
So how can private groups pay for a public highway?...On April 30, 1992 President George H.W. Bush issued Executive Order #12803, which allows private investment in U.S. infrastructure…That´s how.
The idea of allowing trucks to enter this country from a nation which is already responsible for the manufacture of nearly all of the drugs sold on U.S. streets may seem crazy enough, but when you consider the fact that the drug cartels already control at least 71 percent of Mexican territory…it becomes obvious that those truck drivers will be transporting drugs whether they want to or not.
Time and time again, the government of Mexico has proven its complicity with the millions who enter this country illegally. Considering the widespread corruption in that country, opening this nation’s heartland to untold numbers of Mexican trucks will translate into more human smuggling, more drugs and more money flowing to the powerful drug cartels…all at the expense of the American people.
Check out the Kansas City Smart Port: http://www.kcsmartport.com/index.php
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