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Kansas City in the Hands of Mexico?

A report by Phyllis Schlafly in the grass roots organization Christian World View Network brings to light a distributing plan that calls for Mexico to acquire “sovereign territory” in the Kansas City area, paving the way for an flood of cheap products built on the back of Chinese slave labor – not on some port, but right in the Kansas City, smack dab in the middle of the American heartland. Read on for a summation of the unsettling news:

• Most Americans are surprised to learn that Kansas City is a port.We are also surprised, and shocked, to discover that Mexico will be running its own inspection facility there is deal sponsored by SmartPort gets the green light.
• The plan, shrouded in secrecy, has been in the works for at least three years, but it is now coming to light because of the diligent use of Missouri 's Sunshine law by concerned citizens.
• Joyce Mucci and Francis Semler forced the release of official emails from Kansas City to Mexico , including one admitting that "The space [in Kansas City ] would need to be designated as Mexican sovereign territory."
• SmartPort spokesmen are now running away from this written admission, blaming "the problems and pressure the media attention has created."
• The mechanism for this deal is a "nonprofit" business economic development corporation called Kansas City SmartPort Inc.,whose president is Chris J.F. Gutierrez.
• As laid out on SmartPort's website, the plan is to enable cheap-labor products made in Communist China to travel in sealed "containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico," through "a ships-to-rail terminal at the port of Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico," then up "the evolving trade corridor" to Kansas City, Missouri, where they would have their first inspection.
• A Kansas City SmartPort brochure explains further: " Kansas City offers the opportunity for sealed cargo containers to travel to Mexican port cities with virtually no border delays."
• A key purpose of the project is to take jobs away from U.S. longshoremen in Los Angeles and Long Beach who earn $140,000 a year and replace them with Mexican laborers at $10,000 a year. U.S. truck drivers and railroad workers will likewise be replaced by Mexicans.
• The port of Lazaro Cardenas on the west coast of southern Mexico is controlled by Hutchison Whampoa, the same giant Hong Kong shipping firm that owns the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal.The Chinese-made goods will be carried by Kansas City Southern Railway de Mexico directly to Kansas City, where freight will be distributed east and west and on to Canada .
• Mexico was at first expected to pay for the big, expensive machines to conduct high-tech gamma-ray screening for drive-through inspections of containers, but Mexico declined the honor. SmartPort has applied for a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (i.e., to get the U.S. taxpayers to pay for the machines).
• The Kansas City city council has already earmarked $2.5 million in loans and $600,000 in direct aid (of taxpayers' money) to SmartPort, which would build and own the facility and then sublet it to the Mexican government. The cost could go as high as $6 million because Kansas City has an existing lease that runs through 2045 on the same property with the 107-year-old American Royal, which uses that land for its annual livestock/rodeo/barbecue event.
• The last piece in finalizing this project is getting the U.S. State Department to approve the Mexican operation on U.S. soil by signing off on what is called the C-175 document. It has already been approved by U.S. Customs.

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Mexico To Get "Sovereign Territory" in Kansas City; America's Heartland
By Phyllis Schlafly

Our Take

The mainstream media refuses to report on stories that lack sex appeal and cache. Because of this, they drop the ball in their civic duty to report objectively about developments that have far reaching consequences for everyday Americans. This is one such instance. The public needs to be aware of dubious efforts like SmartPort, which are intended to circumvent American labor not to mention flood America with cheap products reaped from the backs of virtual slave labor. What is an even more insidious proposition is to learn such developments hit us where we least expect them: the heartland. All the while, the media turns a blind eye.