Quote Originally Posted by Adam L
In the last few days U.S. highways have been opened to Mexican truck drivers. At the same time another act of so called "sabotage" on a Mexican gas pipeline has been successfully perpetrated. A Mexican truck carrying explosives has exploded killing upwards of 40 people and wounding over a hundred. Regardless of the political motives of this Leftist group's motives they pose a plausible (probable) threat to U.S. security...
You are conflating several different issues in a manner that unrealistically distorts the level of risk. Sure, there is potential risk involved with the cross-border trucking program. However, your statement directly links it with the old-school bad guys blowing up the pipeline and interprets that (imagined) nexus as a probable threat to US security. "Probable" is a strong word in the world of threat analysis, and in this case the designation lacks any substance.

However, there are certainly plenty of isolationists, opponents of free-trade and globalization, and others with an axe to grind who will dredge up all kinds of potential threats and manufacture one nexus of crime and mayhem after another in an attempt to build up enough political influence to put a halt to the agreement. However, many of these yokels tend to forget, or overlook, that the agreement also includes Mexico permitting US truckers to cross into their country for the first time ever. They certainly overlook many Mexican's perceptions of this agreement as an economic threat to their own trucking industry, in that they may not be able to compete once the door has been opened.

We do have plenty of border security issues - and not just with Mexico. The trucking program is not a "gross breach of our security"- in and of itself it will not have a significantly negative impact upon the current state of US border security. There are other issues on the border that are far greater vulnerabilities.