Mexican Customs Office to Open in Kansas City: NAFTA SuperHighway

So you think illegal immgration is bad? Try this on for size: right in the heart of the United States, Mexico will have its own, autonomous (not governed by US law) customs office. I swear that I'm not making this up. From Human Events:

"Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn."

You bet your butt it's quiet, but it gets worse:

"A brochure on the SmartPort website describes the plan in glowing terms: “For those who live in Kansas City, the idea of receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may sound unlikely, but later this month that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality.” "

But the conclusion they draw is most frightening:

"A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks."

If that's true, we've got bigger problems than we thought