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RE: NAFTA
All I can say is that's what the border checkpoints are for, and within the country, the State Patrols to enforce traffic regulations/safety.
I couldn't agree more that Mexico has some major, major problems, but maybe a little opportunity at legitimate business could help. Mexico is already one of our largest trading partners, so obviously copious amounts of stuff crosses the border already...is it more or less controlled than this would entail? Big, bulky tractor-trailers are more manageable than thousands of miles of sprawling, empty border as far as human trafficking.
As far as claiming to be Canadian, there was a really good one liner from a comedian on MTV a long time ago. The most important phrase in a foreign language to learn if you travel to another foreign country is "Don't shoot! I'm Canadian!". That doesn't work out really well if you are in Afghanistan though.
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RE: NAFTA
"I see Canadian trucks on the road all the time. Why would they raise this as an issue, but not the Canadians? The easy answer is racism, which is not what I'm implying, but what...lower standards, cheaper wages?"
Everyone loves the Canadians, yay though they may very well have the worst national anthem ever (jury's still out). When we travel, we tell folks we're Canadian a lot due to the fact that Canadian politics just isn't a really hot dinner topic and no one throws the "conflict" in Iraq or the Clinton vs G.W. Bush cards on the table. Tell people you're an American and you're flipping a coin on receiving a positive or negative reaction. Sad, but true. No one has a bone to pick with the Canadians except the lumber industry and South Park-ites.
Mexico however, is another story. They have out of control drug cartels that are smart enough to wage wars with each other on the internet, the US is building a wall and forming militias to curb the number of illegals coming across the border, their human trafficking record is atrocious and now Mexico wants to add tractor trailer trucks to the mix, to make all of these things easier? The Mexican trucking industry probably has pure intensions of free trade and a more open door policy, but the truck drivers themselves are human and there is a lot of money to be made in contraband, human or otherwise. Money talks all over the world and not always in justice's moral favor.
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