Reply #15: Trans Texas Corridor and the ports? It's all Texans all the time. [View All]

[OregonBlue]

The whole point of the Trans Texas Corridor is to bring cheap Asian good into Mexico, put it on Mexican trucks, driven by Mexican truck drivers. Those trucks will not stop at the border, they will go directly to Kansas City where they will clear Mexican Customs (in a facility currently being built with U.S. taxpayer dollars) run by Mexican and Canadian Customs agents. They will then proceed to Canada and to Louisiana, Nebraska, etc. This is a for profit public/private partnership but the company that will be managing it and collecting the tolls has already been given a 50 year minimum lock on collection of all fees.

What will this do to West Coast Ports? What will it do to the Longshoremen and Truckers unions?

I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but, this really does look like a long-range plan to take over foreign trade and our ports by Texas interests.

Or am I just being paranoid?