Mexican Port In Kansas City? — North American Union Mexamerica Moving Forward

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Texas Governor Rick Perry, in following directives from President George W. Bush’s White House, appears to be undaunted by the onslaught of angry Texans who do not support the Trans-Texas Corridor-TTC, which is planned to begin construction next year.

The 10-lane toll highway which will likely parallel I-35 would extend from Texas to Oklahoma and eventually link up in the heartland in Kansas City, Mo., where controversy looms over whether a Mexican port should be established there. The NAFTA Super Highway would, from there, be stretched to Canada.

Centra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., has been awarded the right to operate the highway through Texas and collect tolls for 50 years. The wide rivulet would consist of three lanes of passenger car traffic (both ways), two express lanes each way for trucks, rail lines both ways for people and freight, and a utility corridor for oil and natural gas pipelines, electric towers, cables for communications, and telephone lines.

Part of the NAFTA plan is to have the Kansas City Southern de Mexico Railroad bring Chinese goods in sealed cargo containers from the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardinas direct to Kansas City. Mexican trucks will drive the cargo containers up the Super Highway, perhaps inspected electronically, and make their first customs stop in KC.

Advocates of the NAFTA plan, such as the Council on Foreign Relations, argue that the the illegal alien problem will be solved by elminating America’s borders and legalizing the invasion, forging a “new American community.”

Some opponents call this corporate-drive “economic integration” the formation of Mexamerica, or the American Union, inspired by the European Union, which would mean absolute freedom of movement for the countries involved and “complete integration” of the nations. Their concern is that NAFTA is something the American people have never supported and it puts at risk the sanctity of the U.S. Constitution, which could be watered down, or eliminated, in favor of a document favoring corporate entities, which they say are the primary beneficiaries of this plan. Too, once trucks enter the United States, who is to say where they go and what is being hauled?

Although Kansas City economic development groups support the inland port idea, claiming that it is designed for goods simply to leave Kansas City bound for Mexico, not for goods coming from Mexico, the Kansas City SmartPort organization claims two main focuses on its website:

1. To grow the area’s transportation industry by attracting businesses with significant transportation and logistics elements;

2. To make it cheaper, faster, more efficient, and secure for companies to move goods into, from, and through the Kansas City area.

Part of the NAFTA plan includes further developing the Mexican port at Lazaro Cardenas to better serve trade from China. At the port, Mexican drivers could access fast lines into the United States, perhaps hauling their goods inspection-free to Kansas City, and from there dispersing throughout the country and to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.