Trans Texas Corridor

[Carole]

Look up the huge terminal located in Kansas City.

Kansas City SmartPort Uncovered!
http://www.naftasuperhighway.info/

Since the passage of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Act) there has been talk of a “superhighway”, or a series of “superhighways” that allow the efficient movement of cargo and laborers within North America.


Although there have been denials of such a highway, the North American Super Corridor Coalition (NASCO) exists to promote just such a system of highways. One piece of it is in progress in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas City SmartPort is an “inland port” that is proposed to handle Mexican customs and inspections. It is to be the link between seaports in Mexico and major truck, air and rail lines in the United States, all the way to Manitoba, Canada. (Another piece of the NASCO super corridor, is the Trans-Texas Corridor-the TTC)

U.S. Sovereignty. A Mexican customs office is planned for Kansas City (with the innocuous name of Kansas City Customs). If the U.S. State Department approves it, this will be the first foreign customs operation on US soil, and there is a concern that Mexico will have sovereignty in their facilities (ie, Mexican customs office will not be subject to US laws). This is currently on hold by the US State Department.

U.S. jobs will permanently be lost. Good paying union jobs in the US for American truckers, railway workers, airline staff, warehouse personnel and dockworkers will permanently shift to non-Americans. For example, the Mexican Ports that are being developed are funded and run in part by a Hong-Kong shipper. Additionally, the Texas-Trans Corridor (a piece of the superhighway) is to be contracted out to a Spanish company to build and operate. We don't know how many TTC related jobs will go to US Citizens, and how many will go to foreigners. The profits from privatizing highways will flow out of our country, and we will lose tax revenues as well!

Environmental Issues. Mexico does not require the level of emission controls that the US does. As more Mexican trucks enter and traverse the United States, more pollution will accompany them.

 

[Carole]

Don't forget, you will be required to have the RFID to use it.

 

[Zippyjuan]

The customs station for Kansas City is for inspecting cargo going into Mexico. Cargo bound for the US will have already been inspected.

 

[pcosmar]

The customs station for Kansas City is for inspecting cargo going into Mexico. Cargo bound for the US will have already been inspected.

Source?

 

[Zippyjuan]

Certainly.Some words highlighted by me for emphasis. http://www.kcsmartport.com/sec_news/media/articles/AssociatedPressStory.htm

U.S., Mexico negotiating to set up customs port in Kansas City

By Garance Burke
Associated Press
November 16, 2005

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Shipping American cars and electronics to Mexico may become much cheaper and faster early next year when the first Mexican customs facility in the United States is expected to open in the heart of the Midwest.

It may be nearly 1,000 miles to the border from Kansas City, but this industrial hub will soon start building an inland port that would whisk thousands of trucks through export inspections and shoot them back out onto the North American Free Trade Agreement corridor, where they can roll through the border without further delays.

The $3 million facility, which would be the first foreign customs office inside the United States, will likely be approved by the U.S. and Mexican governments by year's end and is scheduled to open next May, said Chris Gutierrez, president of Kansas City SmartPort Inc., a nonprofit organization promoting the project. Planners say manufacturing industries in the upper Midwest and Canada would be the first to benefit from the new customs operation, which they believe could expand to handle cargo from across the country.

Mexican government officials confirmed the two countries had agreed on the overall proposal, though both nations said finer points of the agreement were still being negotiated by customs officials - including security concerns and the legal standing of Mexican customs officials working in the United States.

 

[pcosmar]

Planners say manufacturing industries in the upper Midwest and Canada would be the first to benefit from the new customs operation, which they believe could expand to handle cargo from across the country.

Explain that to all the unemployed factory workers that have lost jobs to NAFTA.

It also does not mention imports. Is it a one way hub?

This is bad on so many levels.
The plan of the SPP/NAU is to do away with borders.

 

[Zippyjuan]

I believe the hub iteself will handle traffic in both directions, but the Mexican customs facilitiy is for outgoing cargo only.

 

[hopeforthefuture]

There's nothing on that site about running a highway from Mexico to Canada. Looks like the dreaded NAFTA Superhighway is nothing more than Alex Jones hysteria.

Try to tell the ranchers in Texas who are losing their land to eminent domain that this is not real. My dad has a friend in Texas who said the ranchers are fighting desperately to stop this thing. It's just one more step to the NAU.

 

[IPSecure]

It Seems To Be World-Wide...

 

[zoi]

Here is another link, Texas Toll Party - Looters are taking Texas.
http://www.texastollparty.com/index.php?direct=1

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Umm actually it IS on there. You just have to dig a teeny bit.

http://ttc.keeptexasmoving.com/projects/i69/

"Interstate 69 is a planned 1,600-mile national highway connecting Mexico, the United States and Canada. Eight states are involved in the project. In Texas, I-69 will be developed under the Trans-Texas Corridor master plan."

Are you kidding me?

I-69?

Freudian Slip? lol


You know the conspiring corridor clowns behind all this, thought they would have a chuckle with it. how pathetic