Why The NAFTA Highway?
The proposal for a NAFTA highway dedicated to moving shipments from Mexico to the interior of the United States and Canada is a threat to our national security, and it would accelerate the give-away of American jobs and erosion of U.S. sovereignty. Imagine the United States split apart from north to south. The two parts of the country would each have a new border where they were previously joined. That border would be approximately 1,700 miles long for each of the two parts. So the division of the country would add approximately 3,400 additional miles of border to the country. That in effect is what would happen if the United States opened up a new highway system from the Mexican to the Canadian border dedicated to moving commerce into and through our country. The United States already has porous border control on both its northern and southern borders. In an age when the United States is under threat from Islamic terrorists, the idea of further exposing Americans to the terrorist thre