Is there a strong connection between the immigration debate and the Trans-Texas Corridor that has caused the Bush administration to be resistant to please for border security?

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HAYC OPINION: Some of the problems we see in a "deep integration" with Mexico, from someone who studied Latin American history, went to school in Mexico, rode Mexican trains, traveled and vacationed in Mexico (but wouldn’t now due to dangers), observed firsthand dangers to women on major streets of Mexico City, but who respects & cares about many specific Mexican citizens, and personally supports mission projects to Aztecs and others: 1) Serious corruption at all levels of authority in Mexico 2) Serious cultural differences 3) Poverty ~ they pull us down, we don’t pull them up 4) unasked-for burden on U.S. taxpayers 5) heavy tax burden on Mexican middle and upper-middle classes 6) Reconquista movement 7) Aztlan movement 8) international terrorism 9) unscrutinized involvement with Chinese trading (and who knows what else) groups 10) loss of U.S. sovereignty 11) damage to U.S. sustainable agriculture and small farms 12) danger to U.S. middle class 13) U.S. citizenship and culture issues, not to mention corruption and greed on OUR side of the border, misguided motives of internationalists, etc., etc.

WorldNetDaily.com ~ By Jerome R. Corsi © 2006 ~ [Excerpts] A Mexican customs facility planned for Kansas City's inland port may have to be considered the sovereign soil of Mexico as part of an effort to lure officials in that country into cooperating with the Missouri development project. Despite adamant denials by Kansas City Area Development Council officials, WND has obtained e-mails and other documents from top executives with the KCSmartPort project that suggest such a facility would by necessity be considered Mexican territory – despite its presence in the heartland of the U.S. ….Kansas City SmartPort launched a concerted effort to advance the idea, holding numerous meetings with Mexican government officials in Mexico and in Washington to push the Mexican port idea in concert. The effort involved Missouri elected officials, including members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. "Kansas City, Mo., is leasing the site to Kansas City SmartPort," Tasha Hammes of the development council wrote to WND last month. "It will NOT be leased to any Mexican government agency or to be sovereign territory of Mexico." Yet, an e-mail written June 21, 2004, by Chris Gutierrez, the president of the KC SmartPort, stated that the Mexican customs office space "would need to be designated as Mexican sovereign territory and meet certain requirements."

KCSmartPort.com ~ Nov. 16, 2005 ~ [Excerpts] 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.

WorldNetDaily.com ~ Jerome R. Corsi ~ July 6 2006 [Excerpts] As WND has reported, Kansas City SmartPort plans to utilize deep-sea Mexican ports such as Lazaro Cardenas to unload containers from China and the Far East as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement super-highway plan. The plan would include the hotly contested allowance of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, WND has reported, but Tasha Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council has insisted the port will be restricted to railroad traffic. Hammes has argued the railroad link is "nothing new, other than the fact that Kansas City Southern acquired the Mexican railroad serving this port and that major work has been done on the port of Lazaro Cardenas so that it has higher capacity and can handle larger containers." But internal e-mails make it clear that officials, hoping to stay below the radar of public opinion, plan to expand from rail to trucks after the Mexican customs facility is operational.

NASCOCorridor.com ~ North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition states: "As of late, there has been much media attention given to the "new, proposed NAFTA Superhighway. NASCO and the cities, counties, states and provinces along our existing Interstate Highways 35/29/94 (the NASCO Corridor) have been referring to I-35 as the 'NAFTA Superhighway' for many years, as I-35 already carries a substantial amount of international trade with Mexico, the United States and Canada. There are no plans to build a new NAFTA Superhighway - it exists today as I-35. [Obviously, this was prior to Gov. Perry’s Trans-Texas Corridors Plan. See Jerome Corsi’s comments at Human Events Online http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15875] This group supports INLAND PORTS at San Antonio, Alliance, Kansas City, and Winnepeg. The president is from Kansas City and other Board Members are from Texas’ Bell, Denton, and Tarrant Counties, TxDOT, Oklahoma, Mexico, Canada. See the names at the web site.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/printer_4088.shtml The New American

Coming Through! The NAFTA Super Highway by Kelly Taylor (Austin writer & talk-show host) August 7, 2006 ~ All across America, mammoth construction projects are preparing to launch. The NAFTA Super Highway is on a fast track and it's headed your way. If you don't help derail it, you may soon be run over by it - both figuratively and literally. The NAFTA Super Highway is a venture unlike any previous highway construction project. It is actually a daisy chain of dozens of corridors and coordinated projects that are expected to stretch out for several decades, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and end up radically reconfiguring not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well. And we learn from the CANAMEX Corridor Coalition website that the number of congressionally designated high priority corridors in the United States has been expanded from 43 to 80! Yes, 80 corridor routes have been designated across the United States in an effort to speed the construction of infrastructure necessary for what the SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America) calls "the streamlined movement of legitimate travelers and cargo across our shared borders." Research on any High Priority Corridor will lead the reader into a hairball of studies, alliances, pricing programs, transportation acts, administration agencies, reports, committees, partnerships, and on and on, all designed, we believe, to obscure the real agenda. The idea for these 80 super corridors was not conceived to promote trade and better the economic development of all participating communities. When viewed in the aggregate, they can only be seen as a means to so thoroughly restructure and integrate the three countries so as to permanently blur the distinctions, and to make their merger into a regional government seamless and even appealing. Austin, Texas, is already experiencing fierce struggles over converting its already-paid-for Interstate and state highways to toll roads, but few Texans understand that this new tolling is to be the mechanism for funding the leviathan Trans Texas Corridor. Since Austin has been identified as the pilot city in the nation for testing the new toll policies, you can assume that what passes here is coming your way. [A good summary article to read from an informed Austin, Texas source.]

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/cbipintro.htm

Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program (SAFETEA-LU) The Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program is a formula grant program whose purpose is to improve the safe movement of motor vehicles at and across our Nation's borders with Canada and Mexico. Under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), a total of $833 million is authorized in the program to be distributed by formula to states. [According to The New American article above, U.S. taxpayer money apportioned to border states may be used to construct transportation infrastructure in Canada or Mexico.]

WorldNetDaily.com ~ Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and North American Investment Fund Bill S. 3622 ~ July 13, 2006 by Joseph Farah [Excerpts] ~ Cornyn quietly introduced a bill to create a "North American Investment Fund" that would tap U.S. and Canadian taxpayers for the development of public works projects in Mexico. Despite assurances this week from White House press secretary Tony Snow that President Bush opposes the idea of a European Union superstate for North America, the effort, by one of the president's loyal supporters in the Senate, is sure to spark new questions about negotiations between the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico on issues ranging from security to the economy. "Currently, a significant development gap exists between Mexico and the United States and Canada," Cornyn said. "I believe it is in our best interests to find creative ways to bridge this development gap." The fund, if it is ever created, won't just cost U.S. and Candian taxpayers more, it will also cost Mexican taxpayers a lot more. Cornyn's bill requires the government of Mexico to raise tax revenue to 18 percent of the gross national product. The current tax rate is approximately 9 percent. Subsequent reports are that Cornyn heard from constituents and let the bill die in committee.

PortsToPlains.com ~ The Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor is a planned, multimodal transportation corridor including a multi-lane divided highway that will facilitate the efficient transportation of goods and services from Mexico, through West Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Oklahoma, and ultimately on into Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Together, the communities along the Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor are becoming the Gateway to trade throughout the nation and with Mexico and Canada. The Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor will provide a vast number of benefits for communities along the corridor. The Trade Corridor will allow for the development of less congested ports of entry along the Texas/Mexico border. In addition, it will provide alternatives to other congested corridors that run through major metropolitan areas. In doing so, the trade between Mexico, Canada, and the United States will continue to dramatically increase and all three nations will continue to see a rise in their regional mobility and economic status.

TRANS-TEXAS ALTERNATIVE Opinion from http://corridornews.blogspot.com/2006/07/its-time-for-governor-to-consider.html

CANAMEX.org ~ Since its inception in 1995, the CANAMEX Corridor has grown to become the cornerstone for the seamless and efficient transportation of goods, services, people and information between Canada, Mexico and the United States. The CANAMEX Trade Corridor, as defined by Congress in the 1995 National Highway Systems Designation Act, is a High Priority Corridor. (from Public Law 104-59, November 28, 1995) The CANAMEX Corridor from Nogales, Arizona, through Las Vegas, Nevada, to Salt Lake City, Utah, to Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Montana, to the Canadian Border.