Thread: Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway

by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Jun 12, 2006

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.



Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.

As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.

Just examine the following websites to get a feel for the magnitude of NAFTA Super Highway planning that has been going on without any new congressional legislation directly authorizing the construction of the planned international corridor through the center of the country.

NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc., is a “non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.” Where does that sentence say anything about the USA? Still, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system.


Kansas City SmartPort Inc. is an “investor based organization supported by the public and private sector” to create the key hub on the NAFTA Super Highway. At the Kansas City SmartPort, the containers from the Far East can be transferred to trucks going east and west, dramatically reducing the ground transportation time dropping the containers off in Los Angeles or Long Beach involves for most of the country. A brochure on the SmartPort website describes the plan in glowing terms: “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 later this month that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality.”


The U.S. government has housed within the Department of Commerce (DOC) an “SPP office” that is dedicated to organizing the many working groups laboring within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to create the regulatory reality for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005. According to the DOC website, a U.S.-Mexico Joint Working Committee on Transportation Planning has finalized a plan such that “(m)ethods for detecting bottlenecks on the U.S.-Mexico border will be developed and low cost/high impact projects identified in bottleneck studies will be constructed or implemented.” The report notes that new SENTRI travel lanes on the Mexican border will be constructed this year. The border at Laredo should be reduced to an electronic speed bump for the Mexican trucks containing goods from the Far East to enter the U.S. on their way to the Kansas City SmartPort.


The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. A 4,000-page environmental impact statement has already been completed and public hearings are scheduled for five weeks, beginning next month, in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road.
The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.

A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.

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Once the unions get wind of this, there's going to be hell to pay.

I'm sending it to City Watchdogs.

Here's the big ugly picture!

http://www.nascocorridor.com/

Dixie

Have you noticed how many products now have instructions and other written notices in 3 languages...English, Spanish, and French.

I just bought a new filter for my refrigerator and the instructions all in all three languages.

What do these companies know that we don't?

This is my email to them, I think that Lou Dobbs needs to see this link and might want to cover this, as it is the first I have seen of it, and probably is that way for millions of Americans. We need to get the word out so that people know that we are not only being set-up, but are being undermined by our government. It would seem to me that this would underimine thousands, if not millions of industries. Think about it, Fed-Ex, UPS, etc... then there is all of the trucking and train industry. This would heavily affect these businesses, and put the smaller ones out of business.


I heard of your organization from an acquaintance, and have some unanswered questions that you might be able to address.

The first is, how is your organization connected with Mexico, and if there is a connection, how does this affect your judgement on the illegal immigration debate? Do your favor amnesty in order to advance this operation?

As well I have concerns over the well being of our country, America, how will having shipments coming into ports in Mexico affect American union workers? Will this put these men and women out of work? Will this "North American" super highway lower wages for all Americans, as illegal immigration already has?

As an American who has had her fill of our government making decisions for us, and without our approval, I find this assumption that our government and your group making decisions for all Americans, mostly without their knowledge, a bit enraging.

I think it would be in the best interest of America that someone like Lou Dobbs do an expose on this whole project so that Americans will know that this countries sovereignty is being undermined and that Americans jobs may also be at risk.

Personally I do not want to be "united" with Mexico. Mexico is highly corrupt and cannot be trusted. I am sending a link to Lou Dobbs, so that he can look this over and give his humble opinion, to America.

Sincerely, (name deleted for this forum)

Originally Posted by CrocketsGhost

Once the unions get wind of this, there's going to be hell to pay.

The unions are garbage. They are of no use anymore. Workers have been leaving unions in droves for years now, decades even. Now these unions just cater to illegals in order to get their membership numbers back up to snuff. They are just like the churches, all corrupt and only care about the bottomline. Why else do you think the AFL-CIO endorses far left politicans?

Once again it's up to us to defend our country from these vermin.

The Super Highway has been planned for several years now. I think it started back in the early 90's.
I am concerned that Representative Pence is having a change of mind and wants to come to a "middle ground" with the Amnesty plan, because of the HUGE portion that runs through Indiana could mean billions of dollars in no time!

If I am not mistaken. I read somewhere that the high gas prices are helping to build this highway.

This really is no secret - at least here in Texas - and as for the union, I agree they don't care. If the union cared, we would not have outsourcing, NAFTA or illegal immigration.

I am actually trying to understand just what this means.

What does it do to the American ports? How do the ports link up to the highway?

I do see that "Alliance Texas" is shown as a 'hub' or a terminal. Is that the airport that Ross Perot owns/owned? Does he have anything to do with this?

There has been some discussion about how the 'concessions' , cash, food, etc., will be handled. Who will get to set up shop, in other words. That sounds like a lucrative deal.

While it is probably about globalization - it is also about money. There have to be some big people pushing this that are going to make billions.

Originally Posted by nntrixie

This really is no secret - at least here in Texas - and as for the union, I agree they don't care. If the union cared, we would not have outsourcing, NAFTA or illegal immigration.

I am actually trying to understand just what this means.

What does it do to the American ports? How do the ports link up to the highway?

I do see that "Alliance Texas" is shown as a 'hub' or a terminal. Is that the airport that Ross Perot owns/owned? Does he have anything to do with this?

There has been some discussion about how the 'concessions' , cash, food, etc., will be handled. Who will get to set up shop, in other words. That sounds like a lucrative deal.

While it is probably about globalization - it is also about money. There have to be some big people pushing this that are going to make billions.

Try googling super highway, and you will see what states will benefit from the connector between mexico, the us, and canada. It runs from mexico, through the midwest states all the way to canada. Its a huge project that has been planned from the early 70's- at least thats how far back I got to so far.