Have you heard of the 'NAFTA Superhighway', is that the same as "La Entrada al Pacífico (Gateway to the Pacif

Question

Pacific?)"

"A joint venture of Texas and the Mexican government, La Entrada al Pacífico (Gateway to the Pacific) which also is the title of the DEA report is meant to get more goods from Asia north into the United States.

The plan which involves redirecting more than half of East Coast-bound Asian cargo from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to Mexico will stretch the power of Mexican cartels while aligning them with Asian drug-trafficking organizations, according to the DEA report. That report focuses on the Mexican port of Topolobampo, Sinaloa, on Mexico's southwestern coast.

But Topolobampo has taken a back seat during the past year to another port, Lázaro Cárdenas, just 72 hours from Laredo.

Lázaro Cárdenas, the deepest container port on the Pacific, is in southern Mexico, in Michoacán. The volume of re-routed trade through it is expected to explode within the next four years.

And that's troubling to U.S. authorities.

"The (plan) represents an expanding threat to the U.S. for drug, weapon and alien smuggling, as well as related crime, through a 260-mile stretch of Texas into the heartland of the U.S.,'' the report states. "(Drug trafficking organizations) will be able to exploit the new corridor through the use of established smuggling networks and associations with Mexican drug trafficking organizations.

"They may evade U.S. law enforcement under the guise of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and use established Asian communities in the U.S. for the distribution of drugs.''

Piggy-backing
Ninety percent of all non-domestic narcotics enter the U.S. through the Mexican border, according to a 2005 U.S. State Department report.

Drugs are a multibillion-dollar industry for cartels in Latin America. The National Drug Intelligence Center conservatively estimates more than $108 billion roughly equal to the combined gross domestic product of Ecuador and Guatemala in drugs comes into the U.S. yearly. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration puts the figure at $142 billion in drug trade just between the U.S. and Mexico. Other estimates soar even higher.

"NAFTA has made smuggling drugs across the border easier by several means,'' including via cargo trucks, the DEA report notes. "The volume of truck traffic coming across the border necessitates the expediting of inspections to the point that few trucks are thoroughly inspected.''

More than 9,300 commercial trucks, carrying everything from piñatas to electronics, pass through Nuevo Laredo into Laredo each day, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.

As cargo shifts from Los Angeles to Mexico, it is expected to triple the amount of traffic moving from Mexico through the Texas highway system.

At the same time, drug cartels are using the trucks to piggy-back more than $10 million a day in drugs through the Laredo corridor into the United States, according to senior DEA officials interviewed by the Daily Bulletin.

The numbers aren't surprising, said TJ Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council. In July, Bonner testified before Congress that less than 5 percent of the 6 million cargo containers entering the U.S. each year are physically inspected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.

"From the standpoint of homeland security, this plan (Gateway to the Pacific) is a nightmare,'' Bonner said. "Any possible benefit of expedited trade is going to be totally eclipsed by the increased amount of contraband ... slipping across borders.''

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4906294

And if you go to SPP.gov you will learn that indeed one of the plans already in place is to have numerous 'express lanes' for 'trusted trade partners' to come in with scannable passes (think toll roads).

I think this is insane. What do you think?

And on the heels of that is an example of the sort of problem that occurs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/kmbc/20061227/lo_kmbc/10617943

Answer 1

Bush already signed the protocol for the instauration of the North American Union with Canada and Mexico, but has not informed Congress.

Bush is creating a mess, and CNN´s Lou Dobbs has openly spoken against it.

We Mexicans don´t want to surrender our sovereignty to a North American Union Court, I don´t know about you, Americans. Read more about the North American Union here:

Answer 2

Very disturbing, but I'm not surprised. They want globalization and that is a part of it. Not that it is a good thing for the citizens of the USA. More of the same, New World Order.

This is from your link:

The prospect of expanded trade in Mexican states controlled by some of the country's most dangerous cartel leaders could pose serious national security challenges for the United States, an internal DEA report obtained by the Daily Bulletin explains.

The report, which has never been released, examines how already strained federal law enforcement agencies monitoring border security and narcotics will be challenged by not only Mexican and South and Central American drug trafficking organizations, but also by Asian cartels.

With slim resources to monitor cargo and inadequate border security measures in place, it will be next to impossible for U.S. agencies to stem the tide of contraband expected to enter the country from Mexico, the DEA report warns. Agencies will be hard-pressed to monitor the billions of dollars in contraband expected to enter the nation if U.S. officials don't take heed.

"Contraband can be anything from narcotics, pirated videos, humans or weapons of mass destruction,'' said David Monnette, spokesman for the DEA in El Paso, Texas. "These drug-trafficking organizations know that we are spread thin, and many times they use legitimate trade routes to move their contraband into the United States. This report explains the possible dangers of not addressing these issues.''

This has GOT to be one of the worst things for the USA and our citizens.

Answer 3

I continually imagine of someone taking on a schoolbus with a gadget gun, or of the faculty shootings in Beslan. To the favourite American, a terrorist is visualized as an Islamic extremist, yet terrorism is as previous as civilization. If the U.S. did not meddle in global affairs a lot, and did not help Israel as a lot as we do, we does not even understand what an "Islamic terrorist" replaced into. that's elementary sufficient. besides the indisputable fact that, i'm in my opinion lost on the precedence. On one hand, i don't experience that we ought to continually be helping international locations to the quantity that we help Israel, yet ofcourse, they'd be wiped out if we did not. even although Israel replaced into ilegally known after WW2, does that recommend that's cutting-edge electorate should be left to die? No. yet we are able to not, like this administration, fake like we help peace yet then turn the different cheek and help Israel. extremely of declaring, "Yeah, Israel shouldn't exist possibly, yet what can their little ones do now? you may't kill them. Please, enable's seek for a compromise," we are saying, "ok, you and your terrorists won't be able to be negotiated with and Israel will be right here because we reported so. in case you fireplace any missiles, your human beings will face sanctions. that's all." THAT breeds anger and terrorism. And beforehand, i replaced into speaking about "meddling in global affairs." nicely, as someone who helps upholding humanity, I do position self belief in helping Darfur... yet at the same time as extremists initiate gunning at us, it will be like Iraq, basically on a smaller scale, the position our extremely purpose would were to launch human beings (a minimum of that's noble). Ah.

Answer 4

Yes, i've been reading about this. Seems that Bush's plan is to have open borders!!!

Do you realize how EASY it will be to sneak in a bunch of terrorists or nuclear weapons on these trucks from mexico!!!!! This highway will be considered mexican territory!!! Our police officers,etc will NOT be allowed to stop these trucks and search them!!!! They could sneak in ANYTHING and get away with it!!!!
And we KNOW the kind of "integrity" (SARCASM!!!) that mexico has!!!! They would sell their own mother for money!!!!