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Oh, sorry! Like the last post, it’s only good news for the Drug Cartels, The entire article is worth a read.

San Antonio – Toll Party ? Blog Archive ? Trans Texas Corridor deemed security threat by DEA.

Of greatest importance: “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…

“Those plans include finishing the Trans-Texas
Corridor, which would open the highways to future shipping of cargo
from Lázaro Cárdenas, whose biggest investors are Hong
Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings Group and Wal-Mart. Those two firms
already have invested more than $300 million to expand the container
port.

“For many business and political leaders, the
economic growth promised by Gateway to the Pacific and the Trans-Texas
Corridor outweighs any perceived danger about national security or
increased drug trafficking.”

And why does this stat surprise anyone?

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.

One thing no one has mentioned is that American trucks that someday go into Mexico is that – Imagine the pressure a US driver will be under to help in this grand picture. Either money or violence, the end result will be the same.

This is strictly rumor, but I heard that on the Canadian border a driver will be given some drugs and money to smuggle across. The bad guys tip off border agents to the decoy and while the decoy with a small amount of drugs is being inspected and processed the “real” truckload goes driving by. All the time the decoy driver thought he could beat the odds and not get inspected like he’s done a hundred times before.

As if that wasn’t enough, imagine getting into a wreck in Mexico (no fault of your own) and the corrupt justice system that hates Americans puts you in a Mexican jail. The US already cowers in fear anytime the Mexican consulate speaks, we don’t even protect our own people in our own country doing their jobs to protect us from the drug smugglers, you think the US is going to do anything about a (wrongly) convicted lowly driver? Sounds like fun! Send my butt down there now!