Wheels. Well begin on your phone calls makes u. S. Rade economy stronger or weaker. F you live in the pacific area 2027488001 and send us a tweet wj or join the conversation on facebook. Com cspan. Lines are open so start dialling in. Well get to your thoughts here in a second. Bit more about the world trade bridge. We were down in lore raid dough april talking to u. S. Customs and Border Protection and other images pturing the youre seeing on your screen now of the world trade tpwreupblg. Screen are on your heading southbound into mexico. They are weighed and then tolled and the money that they get from lore goes to the city of raid dough. The city owning this international bridge, the world bridge, the fourth in the city of lore raid dough and the tolls goes et from into the city to pay for a variety of things. Bit about this port, the number one inland port along the u. S. Mexico border. Crosses into and allows the goods to go to warehouses that are within five miles of our location. The goods are dropped off and there going to 60 other countries and many cities all over the United States. About 2. 8 million trucks cross and home to 2014 510 foreigner ins and trucking 105 u. S. Customs brokers. And it is a busy, busy port in our nation. It now arn more about and get perspective from those folks who are there on the ground and all of you get to ask your questions as well. First, what do you think about trade in general . Does it make the u. S. Economy stronger or weaker. Greg in virginia, good morning you, youre up first. I just wondered in the does it mean free trade or you tell me. Do you think the difference is between what do you mean trade . Well the question would make it meant free trade because just trade in general can have a broad meaning meaning a whole lot of different things. If you mean free trade, i think make the u. S. Eke money stronger. Products ter quality at a cheaper price and more choices, as long as the free trade has is not all one particular nation like japan or china or mexico. Idea is that its policy. Ced free trade we get in trouble when its all were not allowed same ort our goods in the way that the country imports to us and thats where the u. S. Trouble. Would you say that nafta, the orth American Free trade greement qualities as a good trade deal. Reporter i think overall in the 20, 30 years its positive. Id like to see a few more regulations moving companies mexico. But other than that on balance its been good. Well the north america Free Trade Agreement passed in 1994 about 22 years old. Baltimore, maryland, our location for the washington ournal referred to nafta highway. Good morning, walter. Go ahead. Caller good morning. And i think that the idea of one fallacies and give me a economic theory which is that the more you dump more more you have the people will want is unreal. You have to increase demand. What trade is about. Borders, on the grounds and countries you have to have a the d system and thats problem with trade in america. We think that our goods are so better that people dont want to buy our goods so much. Yes, but other things E Electronics and demand for has not been positive because people dont want them. The japanese make a better product. They made e air bags a better product. Weve seen the ebbs and flows trade but od to have we have to stop being so narrow we are so hink that great and everybody else is so bad. Inglewood, ohio, what do you think . Caller yes, my name is jose. Dont like blacks and im religion have no okay. Moving on. Does it make the economy or weaker. Caller well, i want to disagree with the premise. Good. Sly trade is but when we talk about free way really its sort of a of talking around globalization of the labor pool. As u. S. Workers is bad. It hurts us. Nd so, yes, its grade to be trading with all these Different Countries all over the world. What isnt great when you made trade agreements that open capitals access to labor and hire the o and cheapest labor all over the to theand creates a race bottom so thats bad to the u. S. A little more about this area we are today, the world trade bridge, when we were down and border ustoms protection took us in an helicopter and we were able to traffic thatsof happening on a daily basis. Screen ucks on your theyre heading northbound and there are different lanes for the trucks. Ou can be in a fast lane and that means the Border Protection a thorough background check you and qualify for a to ain pass that allows you travel quickly through radiation machine. Talk to an agent who looks at your manifest and sees where you have been and where been and from there you go on through a second inspection right there on your theres an agent there. Ng from there youre on your way to warehouses to drop off the goods. Let me tell you about the industry that happens right there. 90 of this truck traffic of t s consists. You have a driver picking up a it in mexico and taking over to the u. S. Side and dropping it off and picking up another load at warehouses right there on your screen and taking makeck to mexico. They may that trip, one truck driver back and that trip forth two times. That means the inspector at the seeing ade bridge are the same Truck Drivers over and throughout the day. Cooper gahead. Morning. Ood trade makes us better and the world better. Or any american that doesnt know that the United States country more than any in the world. Okay. All right. Matt in new york. Good morning. Its your turn. Thoughts. Ur you r my thought is that cant compete with cheap foreign prices. Me . You hear yeah, we can. E cant compete with cheap foreign prices. Caller yeah. Labor costs have gone way down were competing. Said it right. Youre going to make free trade, make free up the labor costs in the foreign countries. Money. M more were just bringing our economy down. Were not raising theirs up. Besides that, its all junk. Days hing you buy these only lasts about three years. May tag or kenmore the same l made by company and all junk. I had a washing machine i bought and it lasted ten years. Five since then. There is also southbound traffic and they weigh these and they are on their way to mexico where those goods are off, more parts, automobile parts, all different ypes of commercial goods that re passing over this border, this u. S. Mexican border in lore texas. Ough, bridge and 977ne feet long and 265 feet wide and commercial traffic only. Its known as bridge four in dough. Aid because there are three others here there are passengers, pedestrians and non commercial fplgts this isll largest inland port in texas. It is closed for business but it 8 00 a. M. Our time and then the trucking its way back be on and forth until 11 00 p. M. Idnight every day five days a week. Theyve got some hours on as rday and hours on sunday well. Laredo were down this toke into the flow and volume of trade there. What they told us. Throughout the laredo field in goods 6 billion imported in fiscal year 15. Over 3 million commercial conveyances. Port of entryredo alone, little over 2 million 115 billion in trade. That translates here where we at today, little over 6,000 trucks a day are coming through this lot. The ent gets here to compound and we risk assess it to be ms what needs examined and the shipment is released and even after the hipment is released our job hasnt ended. We still continue to look at the fact and r post entry review to make sure compliance with all u. S. Government rules and regulations. Enforce the laws and 40 other federal agencies. Field scal year Laredo Office 270 million in duty collected. Fees are a separate fund goes the master of the conveyance, the trucker will goes into the general kind of our general set the helps to payoff cost of our exams and otherwise our operations. Duties that from goes to the treasury. Goes to the treasury, thats correct. We are back live from laredo, texas. That was from an interview that we did during our trip in april crossing. Order by the way, this crossing that we are at this morning, the trade bridge represents over 60 of the truck traffic crossing the border between and mexico. Here is a map that was put together by the development foundation. The u. S. Economy stronger or weaker . It er i say it makes weaker. When bill clinton signed the nafta agreement, it was supposed mexico economy stronger. They were supposed to have a lot of Economic Growth this their countries. They havent had any growth as far as i can see that would be ble to have a Sustainable Living environment. So now all that is is that over the sending goods border and got people there on the for pennies dollar. And we over here we are all because nafta has taken way all of the jobs that we used to do and sent them over to mexico. Now mexico got all the and theyre not taking care of their economy. His is why the people are coming over here to live. Dollar they make like a a day or Something Like that. Is that correct . Not sure about that number. Coming up well show an that we did one of the Truck Drivers that works in the usiness that makes that trip back and forth into the United States several times a day. He talked about how much he makes. 300 to 400 a week. Works from 8 oclock in the at ing until 11 oclock night. Nd he said he lives comfortably. Whats your perspective caller i think it makes the stronger because one being a truck driver i picked up coming across t laredo border. And it produces jobs for the a variety of ives different produce and stuff and into the oming country. Can you talk about once you pick that up you pick up the at the warehouses in is your rom there, cargo inspected again . Out of about getting that area into the rest of the country. Area s inspected in that and shipped to the warehouses in he country of the u. S. Driving it like for across the country with these what kind the of training do you have to have . Basically just being an n the road truck driver the training you have is just like just being a truck driver, just having that your belt. Under its not really training that have to have to carry these roducts from your origin to destination other than the skills of professional truck driving. A you dont have to of certain certification or certain drivers license . Commercial drivers license cdl. Good morning. Caller thanks for taking my call. Ive been a truck driver for 30 years and i got 4 million miles just is like the top, about the most, and i have no pension. Retirement. I have no healthcare. Industry n the whole change from Ronald Reagan until dont speak they english everywhere you go, all the country. Its from the unions being it. Ed most of and thats really the biggest problem that we got. Good when it started, but people have taken advantage of it and theyre both guilty of getting chief labor. Eople who dont even speak english. The Truck Drivers you have now you cant speak english to them. Industry out of all of them. Unions o get these republicans out and then weed ut the democrats so hillary is the best. We spoke with bob cash who is of the texas ctor Fair Trade Coalition. Hes joining us in the last hour this morning. He told us when we talked to him in downtown laredo initial impact that nafta had on this country southern texas. The first thing that i read ppen at that point, about in the newspapers was mass layoff of particularly levi in textile factories, the industry of in the valley and south texas and then plants in north texas shut you go down and mexico. As the years went on, a number of plants shutting because of cheaper imports coming in. Ot because the jobs went overse overseas because of chinas allowing them in the world trade organization. Live in laredo, texas, talking about the trade and the trade and the flow of that happens at the world trade international bridge there at u. S. Mexico border in laredo, texas, and the goods many cities ing to throughout the United States and 60 Different Countries. Once it gets going here this later on youll see the trucks lining up to cross to go through. There are inspections to talk to u. S. Custom and Border Agents theyll be on their way. Youll see southbound traffic as ell happening here at this location this morning. Were asking all of you to kick this program this morning does trade make u. S. Economy stronger or weaker. Steve in robertsville, missouri, what do you think . Can be good, it but the problem is, the stuff junk. Y is you go to walmart or whatever and you buy something and it a month or ou for two. Getting a little bit better. Here are some things that are good about it but i think overall its busting our unions dont make no money and i think thats the biggest problem in our country hillary in to have there first. The only choice we got and aint gonna cut it. To us. Hes lying thats all i got. James what do you think, james . Caller hello . Good morning. I think r having me on restricting free trade keeps u. S. Is necessary. The economy. Lps that yond the system increases unemployment. Our country is in huge trouble. We dont win anymore. Need to restrict them. I problem is mr. Trump and think you should just be in problem. Nd solve this there is some news on trade, the New York Times business section. Trade tax supporters say its or never for the Transpacific Partnership. Politics that have pawned obituaries for obamas signature trade agreement could help win ratification in congress in a lame duck vote. The certainty that the successor abandon the agreement gives 2017 and that dynam dynamic. Its keeping hopes alive from business and pro trade and agriculture groups. Of the new e page york times about this that thousands he oh the socalled would impose new trade rules ncluding for labor, rights and standards. Tal that mexicos president recently sent congress that his would address americas complaints on t unions were talking trade this morning from our location live in texas, the number one inland port here in the country. Compares to aredo trade at other areas in the country. From the laredo foundation. Laredo is number three. Number one port being los angeles and the number two new york city. Aredo is the number one inland port. 0 of commercial trucking that crosses betweeni texas and mexio happens right here where we are this morning. David in colorado springs, good morning to you. What do you think about trade . Does it have on our economy . Caller well, just talking about laredo and apparently the folks ave for gotten about the oakland outport also los angeles and the ork outport traffic ort which runs from japan through the panama yards. The whole nine with me the bottom line is, something you said about a driver running back and forth across the border from until 11 oclock at night. S. Guys, usually the military folks are limited to 12 hours. You have a guy with crosses in back and forth. I dont know how much theyre mexican m if hes a driver, but that seems to be a out of our sight. He says he gets about 300 to week for that job. And hes traling back forth across this border at the World International bridge. Well keep taking your phone here and continue our live program this morning from focusing on trade hours. Out todays we are marking our 30th cspan two of senate floor coverage and paul cane for the washington has a it morning about nd he writes that p. O. W. Alled how he wore a bracelets with mc cains name ton it while the senator spent years in a vietnamese prison. We want to show you a little bit eres a little bit from our first day of coverage in the years ago. Mr. President i will not say that tv in the senate will anything. But i wish to note that we have on how do this and ow to make certain that we cut that shine on the head and if necessary how do the eyeshadow the whole thing is that hose of us unfortunate to have bags under the eyes may look a little bit better. President , i would hasten to add, i plan to do different. After we have that done of to se we may even want perhaps be certain that everything is done properly for camera here. We have even had advice that we do not do as come in with a lain old white shirt and a summer tie. Heaven forbid. I dont know whether my feel this would be a petter decorum for the senate the distinguished staffer nodding no, but perhaps be glad to io would make a judgment on what they attired here in the United States senate. Of gaveltogavel coverage of the senate and today were marking the anniversary tonight well have a special Program Featuring video from the enate floor going back to the first televised sessions. Tune in at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan. Org. Tulsa, oklahoma, were aking your calls as were coming to you live about trade , texas. O caller it makes the economy stronger because of the they should allow it before anden allowed the things that the americans and from that country things that they want from our country. I really do believe that it to allow blessing forward trade has andys been around for years years and years. Sometimes they had to be allow it to d not come in because of so many other issu issues that stopped it. That we o glad this have a president that has opened get some oft we can the things that we need and like that they things there. D take it from we do need trade. Than ever ronger before. Texas. Id in caller its at the bottom tip texas, not too far from laredo. Go ahead with your thoughts. You live close to the border. What impact has the volume of and increase in trade have community . Ur the way its going the quality of products is really low. I see here does it make the u. S. Now ger or weaker, right its pretty down. Ut it can actually make it stronger. How do you do that . You have to make sure that you products in ood order to export out. What happens is the clients see that. N order to theyre going to see what we have done for them ask then were going to say, we match what america did for us. So theyre going to begin to up heir Quality Control so we can maintain business partners. What else does that do . Opens up jobs now. Okay. Michelle in tennessee. What are your thoughts, michelle . Yes. Aller this free trade is wonderful. Differentught new and products. But what really concerns me. Rural area and our mexico andr area. Devastated our because we were a clothing made area. People lost jobs. Town next to us was factory and the its dead now. We are considered a desert area the state of tennessee. Understaand i just really thint that people have left thinking about it because of tax breaks. And this is where i say, trade wonderful, but we got to take citizens first. Think we but i just should put the americans to work first. They manied us when the coming over from mexico and if they believe if its first time driver or omething going on with the truck, they put them right there machine. Xray that building right there in the lue structure around it is an xray machine and that machine single inside every part of that truck, the tire wheels and the top of the bed its the officers there on the ground looking at the xrays sees any anomaly then that truck goes to the dock and every one of the goods on the back of it gets taken off. They do that because of the smuggling of narcotics and theyre also making sure that a weapon of mass get into n does not the United States. The officer that we talked to told us that the efforts will go mask the try to cartels so that the officers mixed in part of the goods in the part of the commercial trucks. Commodities to try to mask the bundles. Wii actually had some rganizations go through the extend of actually shaping the bundles of the con extra band to almost mimic the commodity that theyre trying to smuggle it example of l use an a bag of car coal. Of ee all different types charcoal and a lot of brick kets. Seen organizations try o mask or comingle their bundle into the actual commodity itself. If you were to open that bag it looking at oure charcoal. But when you look at it closer youre actually seeing the marijuana coming over. Onsation back in april with u. S. Border rotection about their efforts it try to stop drugs, people, mass lly and weapons of destruction from coming into country. International bridges and we were at bridge one where pedestrians separate laredo from the other side. Guest, when we went opened up our conversation with telling usted out by about three men that had jumped the turn style. Were three men that jumped it at that port right there and had run into the laredo. This the headline that they had. Didnt alert Border Patrol when hey men broke through and escaped. Afollowup to that, they sent statement to texas and sent it hadspan and this what they to say. At approximately 6 30 p. M. A unit consisting a 40yearold mother and 12yearold son and daughter all citizens of peru the inspection. And apprehended all three and brought them back to the port for processing. Remains ongoing. Back to your calls here about trade. Economy ake the u. S. Stronger or weaker. Ron, good morning to you in california. Ahead. Caller greta, couple of statements pu first i got to doing a youre fantastic job, get tafplt you are really, really good. Of you. Proud over the years you just become a cspan. S for secondly, the idea of trade initially was to lower prices United States. If we look at michigan right now, we see devastation because these jobs that were mexico too be sent to pickup oney on sten 90s s in the 90s, in the an s10 pick up cost 17,000 phi hundred and they sent them down mexico and could have brought them back for 12,000 and instead and passed on 00 the cost of building a new brand new big manufacturing plants in exico. So, the bottom line is theres lot of unfair things going on in trade. When they say fair trade there should be. Jobs andthey take away wipe out a whole state like trade but not fair just stupid. Theysame thing with textile industry. South carolina and all those areas, we have to when we look at these trade have to make y sense. Pollution thing is the last thing i have to mention because most important part. Original concept pack in the we could 90s was that send our pollution offshore and hen we dont have to worry about our pollution of your country. Thats fine but then we double the size of the country so we people here. So were polluting just as strong as we we then and so as a result have to really look at trade on concept and see what were doing. Trade oesnt let us anything. They wont take our cars. Its interesting because they hand drivers and refuse to have american cars and into our country. You mentioned pollution. Environmental factories that moved over to the mexican side nd initially what they saw was 25 million gallons of raw sewage being dumped into the rio grande put paid forn they a Processing Plant to be put on today ican side and youre seeing 6 million gallons being dumped into the rio grande. By the way, the rio grande is what separates the u. S. And we are at thisre morning at the world trade bridge. From about 20 minutes where we were yesterday north of were. We you can see where its located. Talking about a 2. 5 hour san antonio and its ranch land in between all of areas. Joe in alaska. Caller im referring back to commentary about a driver earlier before you went to the about he was re working going to work at 8 oclock in the morning and etting off work at 11 oclock t night and making 3 to 400 a week. The d. O. T. You have to carry a log book and register your hours. Some hours are crooked ones will carry two log books to get this. In t of people getting wrecks jackknifing their trucks and killing people and i wonder emphasis is put on safety with these mexican drivers coming over here. I want to jump to clarify. Part of the s are picking up a truck bed full of bringing it over to the u. S. Side and dropping it off at warehouses and picking up a new load and bringing it over to the mexico side and making twice ap back and forth day. They go to warehouses thats when another driver, u. S. Picking up the load and bringing it to the rest of country. So theyre not actually the ng it through United States then . Right. Caller all right, thank you. Good morning. Caller i think its not working. I think some of the clothes we now are subgrade. Across the was street from walmart and i was looking at two pairs of jeans 50. 01 was 64 and i never thought i would see this. Made in mexico. We spoke to Border Protection about counterfeit goods and that come across the border as well and they have eople who are trained to know hat a label is not is counterfeit. This is a tshirt and the officers there could tell that not it was incorrect and there might be a spelling error or the colors might be wrong. Trained to know this. To take the goods off the truck and call the company and see if its legitimate not. Emark or thats some of the work theyre lso doing at the word trade international bridge in laredo. James, good morning to you. Caller good morning, greta. Morning . You this im doing well, sir. I think trade is great for our country. Of conomics the the country. The biggest problem a lot of missing these trade agreements need to be scrutinized. Congress needs to take a look at these trade agreements and make what hey are following diverge epbtr most practice. Kim the number one inland port long the u. S. Mexico border where commercial trucking begins very early in the morning and continues until late at night. First guest this morning is lynn who covers trade for the news and o express hen later congressman Henry Cuellar who represents texas. About how it helps his community n april we got a hance to talk to one of these Truck Drivers that makes the trip back and forth transporting parts he shared what its like for the daily commute back and forth from United States. How long seven years of being a truck driver. How long does the process take drive the trucks. Youre talking about three months of training before you any trip. How many trips do you approximately . Approximately about two round trips which is equivalent to boxes daily. Four boxes what does that mean . Crosses. Ex two imports and two importants daily. Typical day on the road. What time do you begin and finish . I begin approximately at usually end around 11 00 p. Process that we have to do is i get to the yard get my truck. I check off my seals and head to customs for process. F i get a green route i continue my route. Nce i arrive at u. S. Customs i show myd documentation which is cdl and visa. They let me know if i continue straight or go to the green xrays. Through for example, today i got thats the process sometimes. I have to go through xrays and on. Continue is your salary . My salary is approximately as between 4,500 pesos weekly. ,000 how much is that in dollars . Talking about 300 to week. A with what i earn. Im able to pay my mortgage. But t live lucxuriously not too bad. Survive. To kim we are back live from the number one inland port in the the world trade bridge in laredo, texas, where the ands of trucks cross border every day bringing goods into this country. We talk to lynn, Business Reporter with San Antonio News and covering trade for a while. Its like to be there when its buys six not right now. Up. Gates will open but describe what its like when of busy there at that port entry. You will have trucks backed to cross. Ell see 4,500 trucks cross on average a day. Five international crossings in one is a rail bridge. Bridges youll see etween 48,000 bringing 100 billion of imports and exports in the United States. How does that compare to mexico ossings between and the United States whether california r this is considered the most portrayed bridge in the United States. Like you said, laredo is the port in the land United States but there are also bridges in the rio grande that extremely busy it brings a large industry of custom brokers, operators and warehousing and employs a lot of people. Missing rt of what is in the campaigns when were talking about border trade and good for the so United States, there are reasons United States that are prospering from the north agreement. Ree trade greta how so . Ow are these communities prospering . Well there are a growing mexican middle class. Huge. Etail is even in san antonio which as you 2. 5 hours inland, he number of shoppers who come from mexico is a tremendous impact. The holy week before easter, big one of the exico, most important times of the year for retailers in san antonio. Malls and have restaurants and all thriving due to the mexican who shop here. Reta does that mean if a wall was built or tariffs were put on companies that go over to mexico result ld be the end that youre saying, these exist . Ities wouldnt its really frightening for business folks here to hear that of dialogue because, yes, th these communities thrive on trade. We already have 670 miles of costing fencing 2. 4 billion, hasnt stopped people from crossing. Kind of wall were hearing talks about, a solid to get t they find way over it. Theseld be devastating to communities on the border. What kind of goods are being rought across the border right where you are this morning at bridge . Ld trade a lot of an chemicals goods and and electronics and not so much textiles. Aerospace, aerospace is a industry statistic overlooked 40 of the products across the border u. S. Made components. Ou might have an automobile coming across thats finished in mexico but the motor and the coming from the United States. Back and a lot of forth of different parts of the something might be built in the United States and another part in mexico, et cetera. Integrated its an supply chain. Some say due to that weve actually been able to u. S. A. Jobs. Cturing there are 6 million u. S. Jobs hat depend directly on trade with mexico and these arent isolated with the border. In mid american states and michigan and in some of states. Again i think its been overlooked. Were not hearing about in the platforms. The candidates want to blame trade but its complicated. What about parishable goods. Oh, yeah. The pass an of the trade increased produce has 350 . Theyre sending a lot of mexico and in the products coming theres United States, a huge produce operation thats thriving. Goods from mexico are pretty shelves. Ll of our we have the avocados and tom and chili peppers is all coming in. Been so busy they it. T keep up with snow what is the city and what are folks down there thinking to speed up those times actually the business kind of has had to step up and get congress to let pay customs officers overtime so they can get their products through. Greta what does that mean . What is the role of customs, broker or inspectors or officers . Inspectors. They have offered and they were able to successfully get through cvpogram where they can ask to say staff a bridge longer and open so they can get certain shipments through reimburse custom and service. On greta lets get to calls. Ennis in long beach, california. Good morning. Caller my opinion on trade is picture its not been good for the United States. I do want to say, ive been 40 years so over im not against trade, but i what the devastating part a strong country are believer in a person should have waeupbl. What is happening here we are parts of the ny world in sweat shop labor, trade. Lly slave we cant compete against slaves to. There is no reason building a wall is a bad idea. Build is a wall that the people that youre rading with making sure their workers are getting paid a decent wage that will reduce create jobs s and on both sides and well have a happier and Peaceful World when people are not starving. Thats really the end of the story. Greta do mexicans have a living wage . How much are they making . Automotive read an worker in mexico is making 8 an ho hour. In terms of living wage, there is Something Interesting thats and im hearing it from folks who operate factories across the border. Its getting to the point just compete they have to raise wages and they have to invest in housing and they have to keep happy they have to a wage to workers support families. I have an interesting story from the owner of nature sweet who is based in san antonio and owns a tomato farms throughout mexico. At some point he realized he needed to keep his and he went and asked them, what do you want and of course they said, we want enough to be able to own a house have a nice middle class liv. E said if we do, can you meet these standards and will you ake control of this and hes got 100 retention rates. Workers one of those worked illegally in the United States and when you pay wage they stay. There is a working middle class that is growing slowly but i thats what is in to a but in mexico it seems be getting a little better. Greta over her shoulder is the commercial traffic happens and goes southbound into laredo we were down in down in april, we talked to the there. Operator us how the city of laredo benefits with the amount traffic. We have columbia bridge which 15 of all commercial and back into the United States. Trucks without stopping going into mexico is very important. Hat used to be the process about 16 years ago where we system where trucks were weighed before any into mexico. The system we had back 15, 16 ears ago we would weigh one truck at a time and then charge at a time. Uck all of that is gone. Very single truck is weighed automatically with a weight motion system that we install in every commercial lane that we tolling. We have a system where we charge all ehicles automatically without stopping. The way we process a truck, they are weighed and charged go into ally as they mexico. It only takes 1516 to weigh and charge a vehicle as they go into mexico. That is key because time is time is money, yes, maam. Make sure traffic flows efficiently without stopping. Are charged 4 and 0. 25 counts the it each truck els that has. Axel. Ged 4. 4. 25 per the city collects 57 million in revenues. Used for e money is the operations here for the bridge and facilities and the and the other ns half of the monies collected goes to general funds to Fund Departments for the city f laredo such as all the other departments that do not sustain themselves. Back live at the u. S. Mexico border in laredo texas. Thousands of truck will begin the process of carrying goods forth. D and we are joined to take your questions excomments about t we heard from the bridge there. Or how important is this bridge to the city of laredo. Ithout it, what would the community be like . I think laredo and its been symbiotic relation. Families do business on both live on both sides. Pretty much before the september 11th attacks and the dramatic shut down of the border routinely cross. Of course the drug wars had to do with it. I couldnt really make out what the director was saying but i bridges are s from very important to cities all andg the u. S. Mexico border border. Asmexico some of he them are private but source of ood revenue. Greta shannon is the next call. Morning. Caller good morning. Greta youre on the air. Ahead. Caller my comment is i was gainst nafta when bill clinton it. Ed gave themn sister, we 4 million to keep the jobs here. They said well take your 4 million but well ship mexico. Theyobs to closing unced theyre down another 150 jobs and probably next year the factory in hutchinson. Es, we send some parts to mexico. Before nafta we had a trade surplus and now we have a deficit of 400 million or whatever. Devastating for the midwe midwest. The american for orker and pushed down wages wage workers havent had a increase in 30 years and its because of nafta and our poor agreement. Were putting our american directly against cheap that. And we cant do thats all very true. I grew state. Ew york worked for a while in the former home of general electric. Hen i moved on border or 12 years i met some factory workers town. Ame i saw them to come down to train laid off and ds get in the trade adjustment act and what a failure that was. Hearing that in the dialogue about what a failure the programs have been. We have lost jobs to tphaf tafplt what has benefited this expense to at some other regions. But i dont think we can blame nafta. L on heres the china shock competing with china and the corporate men at where you have profit at all costs and increasing automation and factories that we are highly sof physician indicated. Indicated. Sophisticated. How come germany only lost 11 manufacturing jobs. Its because they were very innovative in finding ways to and really kind im not ir game of the we do better to train workers to adapt to change. Demarco, whats your comment or question this morning . Comment is that i pennsylvania near pittsburgh and weve been by the trade agreement other ina and all these countries able to just dump cheap. On u. S. Soil for im a steel worker right now. Getting destroyed. I know trade is good, but the way they do it is bad for the economy. A loft employees, hundreds of housands if not millions have lost jobs due to this nafta agreement. Greta lynn . Reporter again, i have the same response. Hes right. Jobs have been lost due due to agreements or the tradeful but there is more it. Automation and china and Global Economy and a need to profit. E going to but goods, trade i dont think is going to help the economy and i dont think the jobs illed manufacturing will come back in the same way. Are sitting is often called nafta on wheels or highway. Why that is . Once the bridge opens youll in. The trucks rolling we have four international laredo and 180 million of trade a year and trucks a day. Ts kind of an illustration of border trade at work. Goods coming in and goods coming out. Of commerce. Very dramatic when you see the and coming up through. Over your right shoulder this orning were seeing some of that northbound traffic and starting to pick up a little bit. And look. On the e what happens other side of you, the southbound lanes start to pick up. The trucks coming to and trickling in and the volume increase to 4500 to 6,000 weve been is what told. Ick louisville, ohio, good morning to you. Caller youre in texas and i 60s up in detroit in the and 70s and i written three books on the collapse of the United States. Talking about naftpha nafta in texas. Wars were started by texans. The Largest Military contractor texas. World is in the largest oil all the drugs see, what people come on cspan and they Start Talking about we, we and the states, United States is not involved in starting these oil. In running theyre 140 a barrel. Its the state of texas. Texas has the four Fastest Growing cities in the world in texas. I grew up in detroit. Of a does texas have four the largest growing cities in the United States . In s the economy like texas . Reporter the economy in texas is very good right now. San antonio is the 7th largest city in the United States and population growing rapidly. Austin population growing apidly and seeing more Technology Jobs and cybersecurity jobs. Yes, we have a large military presence in san antonio. E have a lot of federal contractors in san antonio. Dallas, no doubt that booming. Dont know about the crime rates but its been documented that the cities on the u. S. Side irectly across the border from mexico are some of the safest United States. Greta the Fastest Growing heart of deep in the texas. There it is on your screen from bureau. Us and the numbers. Good morning to you, a trucker. Morning. Good area to run the texas south coming up from america. I havent driven for quite a few ears, but our trucks would cross dock and put our freight on a mexican truck to cross the mexican trucks ould deliver in the United States. Theres also a problem with canada because canada doesnt if ooh been en arrested they wont let you into anada we have a big problem with the trade there with our Truck Drivers. But an owneroperator really ouldnt want to go across theres es not hijackings. Speak to that . Reporter aoeupl she said u. S. Carriers do not want to cross into mexico because of highjackers. Whats it like on the other side. Re the cartels trying to compromise the carriers . Whats going on there with the smuggling of people . Unfortunately the areas to of us are still drug cartels. The it is frankly dangerous. I dont know if thats the go on they dont want to into mexico. They have some real some new toll roads. But there is a security risk. Hijacked want to get or made to paid bribes and things like that. That does exist. Side of the issue mexican trucks are supposed to allowed to trapl in the United States. Slow to happen. You have the trucks come from mexico and they stop at the unloaded and yre then u. S. Carriers takes the mainland the u. S. Into the interior. Greta despite miles where youre at or perhaps closer is a warehouse complex in the city of laredo. Speak to that. Reporter when you have so much trade there is so much built warehouses have the and the custom brokers. E have a huge produce infrastructure. Here are so many jobs surrounding trade. Even Border Protection, they 2000 officers in laredo alone. Skwrobgz good federal and they contribute to the economy. U. S. Border th patrol jobs. With is so Much Associated in e when youre down here the boarder. Caller my comment is more Transpacific Partnership and less about trade and more about how it effects on the internet basically. Theres vague text in the ocuments and the overall the lack of transparency that has for the People Center and a ogy vague text about people getting through computer create that would stretch for skwrurp lifts where you have information that was confidential. Greta raymond youre on the air. Good morning. Morning. Good i want to jog everybodys memory back. On the check this internet. Bill clintons speeches when he for president , he was categorically against the nafta agreement and said it destroy a lot of jobs in this country. President , he is the chief architect of nafta the ng it passed because 218th vote in the house was our from here in western p. A. And that man was we havet and since then lost 5 Million Manufacturing jobs. Thetrade is the key word in trade agreement, north American Free trade agreement. The products you make. Out to dont ship jobs back. Those products Hillary Clinton clapped her and said it was great achievement by husband. Hes going to be the same and tpp will be the cherry on top of sundae. Im not sure i know the answer question. Large ow that texas is a agricultural state and large xporting state and most of the olks i know are in support for free trade. Free trade works for texas. It may not work for everybody but for the most part they the its an important agreement. I think it was the former caller something about intellectual property, i think issue. A huge who door i know of folks employ people in china who are with factories in intellectual ow factories are a huge deal. He not sure if thats what was talking on. Greta behind her is the country mexico, what separates where lynn is sitting in the united is the ide and mexico rio grande. If you look at the satellite thats f where we are, our location with that red arrow. The world trade bridge, the traffic that goes southbound and then traffic curves orthbound that around. Footprint there at world trade bridge. Camera man there on site howing where the truck is coming in. That red truck coming in is northbound and the other side is the southbound lanes. In spainish there in the background as the world bridge gets underway. Business starting at 8 00 a. M. Their time and well ear the trucks revving up soon on the washington journal focusing on trade and live from texas. We were talking about immigration yesterday from this location. On the washington journal well be talking about congressman Henry Cuellar democratic of texas about nafta. It and benefits his community as well as the and critics ountry of the critic of the flee trade agreement. More of your calls. Charley in hayward, california. Haver couple of factors i not heard mention of and that is ability to move e product by using a ton have how many employees we involved this and the answer is probably zero and it will be all technolo Technology Replacing existing no jobs coming from he transportation using autonomous trucks. To that, you speak lynn . Thats quite possible. Right now i would hope that too soon butn too, im sure Truck Drivers i know some Truck Drivers are concerned livelihood going away. Stop t know that you can the technology. m sure that could very well could become a reality. Companies are concerned about the bottom line and thats just it is these days. You talked about the different jobs related to trade. One of them is a customs broker. A customs broker . Reporter. Ell, a customs broker will facilitate the goods moving through and deal with the and things duties like that. What . Their job is to make sure the security folks coming. Ats how important is their job to efficiency of trade . Reporter theyre going to be specialists and part of the economy and theyll help you get our products through in an expedient way. You dont want things to get by different regulations. Things to move through the bothered as quickly as possible. Laredo is thet of number three largest u. S. District. One inland port and district e, customs 7th. Exports and ranks vaughn in missouri. Good morning. Caller yeah, did morning, you doing . Host doing well, sir. Whats your comment . Know, you ll, you thed what do we think about trade. I would say, man, its confusion. Crazy st to me its a thing thats going on ehere. I ont understand how it is you figure that sending jobs to to her country is supposed us. Good for the lady uestion for tell me one other country that has done the same thing to its people that the has done to us . Why aint everybody doing it if thing. Ch a good greta im not sure of his why isnt king you everybody doing free trade. You cover trades for the san Antonio Express new. Can you speak a little bit about we trade and versus how trade. Ther countries youre im sorry breaking up. Its all right, lynn. Dont worry about t little technical issues. The sun starting to shift there in laredo, texas. Break. Take a short when we come back, well talk about whats happening there in world trades at the bridge in 20,153 million crossed the ucks border and many of them right there at the world trade bridge. Nafta highway after the 1994 trade deal and congressman o the who represents the kraeur and enry cuellar about the throw later ume and then director critic of the trade deal will be with us. First we want to show you a trip toit more from our laredo back in april. We spoke with u. S. Customs and about a recenton seizure of narcotics they had were this in the back of a truck bed right at world bridge. Inside we have a load of confiscated t we yesterday. Arrived and it was eferred in for an intense inspection and one of the officers pulled the packages and bundles it was paper with cellophane and it was tested to be marijuana. How many pounds of marijuana did you sees . 2465 pounds of marijuana. Isl value in dollars. Million. Tell us how this packaged in the truck. Yes, maam. In the trailer. Short just what we call a end. Was the shipment the packages ere were. It was just thrown n it was not box of the e the shipment of the merchandise. It was just thrown in right next as you can see. Did you interview the driver f the truck, would you typically interview the driver of the truck. Yes, maam. Narcotics we he contact the agents and they interview the subject. Older and ot of questions. Do you find those drivers are linked up to what happened or do they not . Most of the time they dont have knowledge. The companies this they work for they give them the paperwork and to these jobs and go and pick up trailer number such and take it into the United States with this address. The of time thats all information they have. Greta if you find out that they have some knowledge, what is going to youre not prospect them, what is the punishment for these drivers who known. Ave . Them. Wledge we prosecute we cross cute them and at the and present them in court. Reta if the Attorney Says im not going to prosecute, do you have any other action . Away their license . Most of them are visiters and visa, the one r hey use for the United States we er we process them or visa. Cancel their greta that means if they the visa anymore in t work this industry . Thats correct stphaofpl we are back on this thursday coming to you from laredo, texas this morning talking about trade and getting on it this s morning. Is can see where laredo right there. Steve in illinois. Good morning to you. What do you think about trade . Does it make the u. S. Economy stronger or weaker. Your position on it . It makes us weaker. That the pipeline canada for 130 billion. Two is i live close by chicago, west side and it looked like a war zone from afghanistan. No jobs there for the community. Devastating. The third thing is id rather free trade and an tkpraou ackson, president Andrew Jackson was the only president dissolved our budget. Good morning. I worked for about 18 years at a factory that we had here. They 6 of them in north arkansas. Nafta was after assed, they brought on 3 or 4 factories in mexico ask we were guaranteed like half of america, worry. These factories arent going to take your jobs in any way. Weeks ess than three online, we got severance checks. Greta kim in greenwood, colorado. You are next. Well, thank you for taking the call. I know you have a couple of people coming up that can answer questions that im going to pose to you and you can help pose to them. S you know sitting from your desk you cant get republicans and democrats to agree that its even thursday, and yet when it both to free trade epublican and democratics agree. That tells me that theres value behind free trade. So because of that, theres also price that we pay internally nd you hear these stories coming in on your calls all day long. Hat are the options that when you get these guys on in your options are what there available to the that maybe there is a dividend that people who lost of free trade like a peace dividend. Aybe from is a trade dividend that somehow can help balance who have or people jobs. And maybe could you see if there are options we have not considered. Hat was my comment and hopefully we can ask those questions. Greta that will be part of the as we go back to texas. Cuellar joins us. Ill get to that viewers i want to begin with you to tell us about how he nafta trade agreement i think wing this at the beginning of the year of the nafta, trade has been very, the job y important to creation here in laredo, texas. Total price, at you have l. A. , new york city and laredo as the powerhouse of what we talked about trade. The largest inland port were number three. If you want to see job creation see it in the International Trade Community Whether its warehousing, trucking, logistics and secondary jobs. Created here. Most of the jobs in trade. Laredo laredo is a unique city. The most hispanic city in the whole United States. About 96 hispanic so the community here has had a relationship between the u. S. War and o. After the they put the rio grande as the decided to e people go from laredo and they created laredo. But there are a lot of finally therefore the o trade so theyre job related. Doing in t are improve n to expand, upon what is happening right there where youre sitting from morning . People live from the border the less understanding they have about border. The border is safer than washington, d. C. Be 3 to 4 rate might urders per 100,000 and in washington, d. C. Its 15. 9 100,000. Er they have this perception, people who run for national who run for people state office always paint the border as the flash point and as the hat they use punching bag. But if you look at the border, creates a lot of obs for not only for us but across the nation. 6 million jobs we have of the trade use if you look mexico. They have i think the 10th largest economy of the world. In 12th place is italy. Between those two at number 11 it is the republic of mexico. A strong growing mexican side and unfortunately a lot of people ho live far away from the border they look at mexico and all we have are rug dealers and rapists and stuff like that, but if you look 1920s ago you say in the everybody was a criminal and mob. Chicago. He an fair to they have manufacturing and they are developing a lot of good things and they have very good United States. Have to understand that mexico is an threat but theyre of the friend United States. Florida, good morning. Caller how are you . Host doing well, sir. Caller your callers are trying o understand basically whats happening and the word free trade is actual acatch phrase redistribution of wealth. America were living on a rocessed island in a sea of world poverty and thats our go down of living will and the standard of living of countries is going thats it. Respond, ahead and congressman. Again, there are different perspectives. Has been part of every great civilization that we have had. Look at the greeks and he romans and other civilizations of history of mankind. Trade has always been part of economy and same thing with the United States. E can either take the 1930s attitude where we say well close our borders and not going any part of g with the world or we can say, hey, consumers or our u. S. Manufacturing for our companies are outside the United States to engage that. F we dont get engaged in International Trade do you think the world will stop just because of the United States. Not. s russia will fill in the void and china will fill in the void. Want to see the United States as a leader but especially when it comes to trade. Are a powerhouse and we need startacking like a powerhouse. Caller my thoughts on trade are have a trade neutral. We cant buy more than we sell been ats what we have doing and were running a big eficit and a deficit for a country is not g our National Deficit is out of control. To buy made if the u. S. To restore jobs. You. K i agree with the gentleman. There is a company in montana, a that does mpany business here in laredo, texas. I know because i used to company, so again its one of those things that rade touches every part of the country and again i agree with the gentleman. To see trade. Part of the reason we have the deficit is because were oil. Rting so much and this is why another Sector Energy is unity is oil and gas and we export more of that then well be able to down. That deficit i agree with the gentlemen. Products see u. S. Made by companies go out there and produce. Et me Say Something about the border. This is something. You were talking about people coming in and people worried about people coming in. We know what the study has said. Ess people come into the United States and the lowest weve seen in many, many years. You know whats been great in the oming in billions, there are billions of mexican dollars that are being invested in the. S. The largest Bread Company in the they bought now companies that include sara lee, Thomas English muffins. Look at lala. Heard of born milk. If you look at automobile parts, there are Mexican Companies here that produce so many parts for cars here. The second largest maker in the United States, you know who owns them . Mexican investment owns them ere. In many ways you have people working here and second here in the cer nited states is building the foundations of the United States city and counties and theres by investment. 500 illegal firearms to the cartel helped out with free trade. I couldnt understand everything but i think you were alking about fast and furious about the illegal guns. Thats a different thing from trade. Talking about guns and other issues and Law Enforcement and talking about immigration, ways everything is interconnected one way or another. But were talking about the trade. Mate the fast and furious or guns being sold over there we know as the second ave amendment rights here, guns are going to be produced here and be sold here. But there are certain rules we got o deal with and work with because a lot of the drug dealers are using guns that to the oduced United States to go kill people mexico, and mr. Igoing into the fast if furious thats a totally different topic. I want to talk about legitimate trailers pass 00 through laredo every day. On a one e them up year basis, all the trucks in around the world twice. That tells you the powerhouse of that we imate trade have with our friends in mexico. Of your u know many colleagues dont agreed with you. Watch has zens trade put together in 2014 a 20 year report on nafta. How is what they write criticismpond to that of nafta that you probably hear from your colleagues on capitol well . As certainly, folks will come up and different perspectives might be leaning one particular way. But the liberal group theyll another perspective and its the labor union and ill come up with a different perspective. But then if you go with the business the people that are come ro business theyll up with a different perspective. Want to see is a fair and balanced trade. I can talk about what is happening here in this area and people can talk about michigan and illinois. At thesent this area and same time i represent the United States. When we do trade agreements we we have free ure trade and fair trade but at the same time theres adjustments have to be done to certain people we understood to provide he funding to help those retrain. We can dig ourselves a hole and act like there is nothing be the g or we can powerhouse that we are as the United States. Do what we do best and do American Products and export. Exporting umber one state we have in the country. Cattle e exports from from agriculture products and computers. Here in texas gs nd we understand the power of trade, fair trade but at the fear going cannot outside the border. E are americans and we need no understand we can compete with anybody in the whole world. Minnesota. Eapolis, michael youre on wear with the congressman. Your hi, thank you for time. I think what a lot of people are they goo understand, as into the local walmarts and purchase the goods and Services Prices go up the exponentially. Benefit to the citizen when you look at the borders rotecting our that they claim when you look this theyre saying they are spending a ton of money to border and then looking at the cost because the wage dz have gone down in the exponentially. Those are the comments. Want to. F you congressman thank you again for your comment. I understand. I certainly dont want to see i dont want and to see the prices of consumers o up and again, many of times theyre tied in into cost of and fools and Different Reasons why prices go up. Of you talk about the cost border security, you know we 18 billion for security because were playing defense on the one yard line. You know this, but two years ago we kate and myself and appropriations we added 80 million to help secure the southern border. Southern border of mexico, so they can secure their border guatemala. What we were hoping they would stop people from coming in from the southern border. Didnt you know over a period of ime, that same period of time they actually stopped more people coming into mexico than Border Patrol. Either we play defense and spend on the one llars yard line or we extend or and play defense on the 20 yard line of the we got partners and we have coming in. Go into ant to migration or immigration. Less mexicans coming then the late 1970s. Ive been to Central America and people coming he in, theyre looking at the southern borders. Look at whats happening with cubans. The largest number of cubans come intoing United States are laredo, texas. Who would have thought cubans and come be coming in using laredo use it as their number one port. 65 of the cubans coming into the United States thats where theyre coming in. Have to be floored in how to secure the border. Immigrationlk about reform. If we have a guest worker planned people come in and they go pack and fork work and we know who they are. Officials it focus on criminals who come into the United States and we can still at securing the borders. Greta greg in warren, michigan. Good morning. Morning. Ood pleasure talking. Thank you, representative for allowing me to be on. I would like to mention that it could negotiate stronger straight agreements like the chinese do to the states. We do not have unfettered free any other china or country. Every country we trade with sets our own rules. The number one market in one orld and the number economy. Slippingr middle class and chinas increasing. Greta congressman . He was breaking up little bit, but i think i gathered what he said. Thank you, i appreciate that. World economy the u. S. Is the number one power. We got to act like the number one power because we are. If we decide to shrink away the world and take the p it whats going to happen russia and china will fill in the void. You have the chinese looking at of course weve of oil go down ut they are looking at insrefplts. Theyre looking for opportunities. Theyre finding the natural soources to get involved in, we either were part of this riting the rules for the World Economy or well let phb else while we shreubg back. So again, if you go to look at got to like china we make sure theyre jumping things into the United States and make its against is the law and we enforce our law chinese. He we got to talk about addressing have issues much again, we to be strong and engage the orld because, again, the world is not going to wait for us and we got to make sure that we act s the leader as we should be the leader in the world. Greta congressman, you mentioned this earlier, you used client who does trade right there on the u. S. Mexico border. Were a customs broker from 1983 to 2000. Customs broker is and whats their job. Congressman im an attorney by broker. On and im a broker is someone who is involved in the movement of goods. Theyre the ones that deal with customs. Pay fill out the paperwork, the duty for goods come into the i used to be in the middle of the trade down here. I know it. I know trade. I understand it also. Im trying to speak from the ody who understands trade and not just talk about things im not familiar w im personal use my knowledge that ied had and my experience as a Small Business talk about trade and have seen jobs created here in laredo sector. Greta steve. Greta and d morning, congressman and thank you for taking my call. Okay . U hear me we can. Youre on the air, steve. Thank you. Im in the late fifties and i lost my job because half the assembled all in texas and d they busted our union and other in mexico. Ng made congressman made a comment and the previous caller. What country in history gave away their jobs in the name of trade . What we are doing. Congressman well, again, nobody wants to give their jobs away. I certainly dont want to see the jobs given away. If you look at what the romans did and the greek and Great Britain when they were involved in tobacco they her activities, when came over to the u. S. , its the were created and the merchants and. T was a Merchant Society and trading society. Again if were not aggressive in see ting because i want to u. S. Made goods here in the u. S. An example as as because are the number one exporting, look at the agriculture. Of the Agricultural Products in the United States are exported. Export maybe 1520 . Nobody wants to export jobs. Politician will say they want to export jobs. What we want to do is create export the jobs over there but at the same time world has that this become so complicated. As i mentioned some of the companies that we have here in the United States are owned by mexicans. By mexicans. The cement that you probably thats ownedive on by a mexican company. The milk you drink own by a mexican company. Thomas ish the english muffins or sara lee, the argest tortillas or wraps coming in, theyre Mexican Companies. To understand that we ave Foreign Investments but here were joining with american companies. We got to rld but understand the rules. Its a the world that we got to be competitive and its a world to understand that the United States is the leader leaders ed to act like economy. World greta pat in bonita, california. Here is that located caller eight miles from tijuana. Mexican is still voting with their feet and still coming up here to san diego flooding our schools. Ts majority mexican population. By that i mean mexican nationals. Heir children are here. They may be american citizens and theyve chosen to do that by taken advantage of come on over a half a day and have your baby and then make them a citizen. Upset about though you see theyre flooding our section ight housing and these are facts. I dont care what any politician says. Are you aware right now in it is backed up with hundreds of haitians and people to get asylum ng coming into the United States. I dont know if thats the work of the cartel. Really donting and know. We have a serious problem. For politicians to deny it have ve to recognize we this problem. Greta congressman . Congressman he was breaking up little bit but i understand a little bit of history. This lady lives at, i know for a fact, texas, ia, colorado, this was owned by mexican and mexico before the u. S. Got in a war in mexico and took 55 of all the territory so i understand all that. I understand history. At the same time were part of states. Ted we want to see our borders secured. We do same time understand that some people come over here for economic reasons. Come erstand some people over here for jobs and some we understand some people come over here for jobs, some people come to hurt us, sell drugs. I understand that, so we have to be able to secure our border and hopefully have fair Immigration Reform that addresses the guestworker plan, what we need over here. A migrant worker. Need to have a guestworker plan for somebody willing to do the hard work in the sun. I would rather have americans first, but if not, we have to have a guestworker plan to fulfill the jobs some people do not want to do, but at the same time help the economy. There are less people coming from mexico. In fact, there are probably more mexicans going back than what we have coming in. People are coming in from different parts of the world. Look at what Border Patrol calls other than mexicans. That number is increasing. We have to have extensive border security. A wall is not going to work. That is a 14th century solution to a 21st century problem. Look at the wall in china, the berlin wall, world war i. Inhave to use technology extending our perimeter to work with the countries out there. I want to secure the border but in a smart way so that we can have the best security and save the taxpayers dollars, instead of building spending 18 billion on border security. Host in april in laredo, u. S. Border and customs told us that area have seen has seen a big uptick in cubans trying to come into the United States. They told us that in the First Six Months of this year, they have seen about 14,000 cubans coming into the laredo area. As long as they can prove they are a cuban national, they start the process of becoming a u. S. Citizen. Talk about the cuban adjustment act, and do you think it is fair to treat cubans reverently than oricans claiming fear syrians claiming fear . That is also happening at the border right there. Look, you are right, twothirds of all the cubans coming into the United States are coming in through laredo. I was in puerto rico, and there were cubans there and shelters. Kay granger and i flew down there, and i asked the cubans were they were going laredo, texas. They said it is a safe place to come through. How do you pick laredo, being in cuba and not understanding the geography . Because there is a pipeline that brings these people coming in. We have the cuban adjustment act of 1966 tiered we have the 1980 refugee act they got amended. That basically means that if you come here to the u. S. As a cuban, you get into the u. S. , you get to stay. The moment they cross over, they do not have to fear deportation or detention centers. Filling out the refugee assistance. They can get 1500, 1800 for that. They can apply for food steps in housing. No other group gets that immediate help. So no matter who it is, they come in, and as a blanket, they get that support. I understand why we did that for castro, but castro has lived 9, law wasdents since that enacted. We need to change that law. We need to make sure that if they want to come in and have credible fear, it is and is silent, and it is done on a casebycase basis. Like anyone else, they have to go through an immigration judge and be approved. The judge says they stay or go back. What they are getting right now of becauseesty some no other group gets like that. I want to change the law, along with some of my colleagues. But we know this is a president ial year. It will not happen. I want to go back again and try to save the taxpayer money. Came up with some numbers to did you know that in the next 10 years, if we change the law about cuba, we will save the United States taxpayers billion, because were giving away this amnesty and assistance to every cuban that comes in, instead of going and casebycase basis helping the ones that truly need the assistance to it we need to change the cuban assistance act, with all due respect to my cuban friends. It is amnesty and special preferential treatment. The taxpayers need to know were spending almost 2. 5 billion a year on this blanket amnesty that we are giving to the cubans. Host cspan was able to speak with a cuban who made the trip went we were down there in april, had been traveling for four days straight. Was at the port of entry in laredo, and cspan was able to talk to him about his journey and why he came. You can watch it on our website, cspan. Org. Joyce and kansas, missouri kansas, missouri. You are live on the air with the congressman. Hello, we have no border security. Everybody talks about we need to strengthen our borders and border security, and you have done nothing. We have exported all of our manufacturing jobs to other countries and into mexico. It used to be that when our people got out of high school, they did not go to college, but they could go work in manufacturing plants. We used to make things here. Now everything has been moved out of the country. We have lost jobs. We let in every stray human on the planet into this country. Right here in my small town, we had illegals who were having children at our expense of them and they would immediately go on welfare. And we support them so they can come here and take our jobs in roofing, construction, everything. Wall, howevere a high it has to be. Obviously, laredo is not stopping any of the foreigners who are coming through mexico, and i am sure that the people who are smuggling them are making fortunes. Representeak like you mexico, with the mexican people buying up companies here. Of course, china is buying up our farmlands and companies here. We have to protect our citizens host ok, lets give the congressman a chance to respond to you. , she has a particular perspective about immigration. Look, again, i understand what she is saying. I disagree with her. I do agree that we need to make sure we secure our borders. Everybody is talking about that. By attacking the laredo Border Patrol, i think we have 3000 to 4000 combined officers, to say they are not doing the doing anything in laredo, with all due respect to the lady, it is an insult to the men and women here every night and day protecting our borders. You are attacking the men and women doing so much to secure our border. Number two, migration. Again, i want to have legal migration. There has been illegal migration in texas. Let me give you a story i remember reading some time ago. There was a Border Patrol officer of the complaint to the central government, saying, hey, we got illegals coming in through the river carmen they up ouring in, taking land, not respecting the law, so we need to get this people out . Inat was written about 1830 spanish by a mexican general, and at that time, it was owned by mexico, and he was complaining about americans crossing the red river, which is in the northern part of texas, americans coming over and taking over the land. Again, history, history. You have got to understand history. Migration. D about right now, this is the United States and we want to patrol the border. I do not think it is helpful to attack our men and women from Border Patrol, from cpb, that are here working to protect you, and just to make a blanket statement and say they are not doing anything is, with all due respect to her and anybody else, i will stand with and support the Border Patrol, the men and women that work here at the border, because they are doing a heckuva job. They need help. We cannot slap them around and say they are not doing a good job at all. Host michael in new york, good morning. Caller yes, yes or no to this question have you taken at st one dollar from a u. S. [indiscernible] of a mexican cabinet . Guest the phone is breaking up. Host he asked if you have taken one dollar from a u. S. Subsidiary to a mexican company, as in, Campaign Donations . Guest me as a congressman . Host yes . York, the again, new further you live away from the border, the less you understand the border. This is the United States, and we are all governed by the rules of the United States. Foreign contributions are not allowed to anybody. It is like saying, does a canadian give money to a congressman in new york . Questions, if i understand, are a little insulting. It is an insult to anybody. Just because we understand the border does not mean that we thisyou know, doing with person is insinuating. And again, the further you live away from the border, the less understanding people have of the border. This is the United States. I love the United States. And were going to do everything to protect the United States. At the same time, we understand our relationship with our friends, not enemy, our friends, its a can some of the 11th largest mexico, the 11th largest country in the world. Look at canada, the United States, and mexico. We are in a sea of tranquility in many ways. Look at the middle east, eastern europe, ukraine, russia, eurasia, armenia. Look at different areas. In our part of the country, we have mexico and canada, and we are in a sea of prosperity and we will continue improving our lives. Again, comments like this not very constructive. Host congressman, a tweet about going back to nasa. What specific jobs did nafta create . Again, there are 6 million american jobs being created. There is a map that i would be happy to share that talks about all the jobs that are in almost every state. There are jobs that, if you look at almost every state in the country that has trade with mexico, jobs are being created. It is not only texas or the border states. It is a most every single state created. There are 6 million american jobs that have been created because of trade we have with mexico. That is not even include the billions of dollars that the mexican confidants have invested here in the United States. Cms, second largest producer of cement here. On wasent they walk produced by a mexican company. Thomase, english muffins, borden milk, so many other companies. Companies are here in the United States and are part of our economy. More importantly, let me explain our relationship with this. If something comes from europe, it will havena, American Parts. If something comes in from canada, our largest trading partner, it will have about 24 American Parts. But if something comes in from mexico, it will have 40 American Parts, which means that our economies are so interrelated, and American Parts are being sent over there. So whether people like it or not, mexico is so tied into our and that is what we have got to understand. Host congressman, business section of the New York Times this morning reporting on the Transpacific Partnership the headline is that the trade pact supporters say it is now or never, that some are strategizing to get this approved during a lameduck session. Where do you come down on Transpacific Partnership, and do you think it could get done in 2017 before the next president is sworn into office . Guest i support trade agreements. I support the tpp. In fact, i went to paul ryan when he was chairman of ways and means, and i asked if he needed a democrat to support, and i think is probably the only democrat that signed on to the bill on the trade promotion authority. I support tpp for Different Reasons. One, we are the leader, and we should act like a leader in the World Economy, and we should not shrink away from the power that we have. Usmade goods. 18,000two, we will have tax cuts, tariffs, which means that 18,000 tariffs will be cut across the world, at least on those 11 other countries dealing with the u. S. And the tpp that will be reduced, which means that we can send our agriculture products, cars, and other things to compete. 18,000 tax cuts we will have so we can send americanmade products outside of the u. S. , where 95 of the consumers are at or the third thing, which is extremely important, is this if we are not engaged in the rules, in the rules of trade, fair trade, then youre going to let china, you are going to let russia write those rules. Either you let china write the rules for us here, or we, as the leader, get involved and write the rules and be part of the negotiating table. Again, i support trade. I want to make sure we have fair to rate, balanced trade. I understand all of that. That we, as a leader, cannot shrink from our responsibility to it we have to act like a leader or do we are the best country in the world. Darn it, lets act like the best country in the world. Host congressman Henry Cuellar, thank you for your time, and thank you for your help getting cspan2 your district in laredo, texas, so we can show our viewers what it is like there for the trade community that lives there. Guest thank you. Bienvenidos, gracias. Host we will continue talking about trade from the world trade branch and e. On, where warehouses and beyond, where there are warehouse is on the landscape. Thousands of trucks will cross theborder there, u. S. mexico border today. It is referred to as nafta on wheels be at 160 6 billion in imports last year. 3 million commercial trucks crossing in one year. We are going to talk to bob cash, state director of the texas Fair Trade Coalition, a critic of the nafta trade deal. We will get that perspective, next. First, when we were in laredo in april, we spoke to a local anger who told us a local banker who told us why companies are incentivized to move production to mexico. [video clip] it is a young labor force that become can become educated and trained. Many countries, not just in the u. S. But all over the world, moved to mexico based on its population, 130 million. It is not only a young that can be part of world trade, but it has become a manufacturing platform for the world. More engineerss out of their universitys many countries in the world. So the training and Education System in mexico is really developing into a global Education System that allows these workers to be properly trained and provided with the skills. There is a lower wage. As that trade expands in the , aponents of a platform sector of business, it gives rise to those wages that become part of the new middle class of mexico, i believe. Right now, we have lower wages in a country like mexico or other countries. Lets see how those wages can also be improved by providing a better quality of work force, and at the same time, the competitive. [no audio] we are back live in laredo, texas. There are the images of what we saw when we visited the town back in april and the thousands of trucks that will go through inspections. It begins with a radiation inspection. They will talk to u. S. Customs and Border Patrol officers at that port of entry. From there, they might get a second round of inspections. 10y might take in randomly trucks and put them through an xray to shane machine to look at more of the commerce. Laredo, texas, on the u. S. Mexico border. We continue our conversation from there this morning. Bob cash is joining us from the world trade bridge, state director for the texas Fair Trade Coalition. Bob cash, we heard from the congressman that the north American Free trade agreement has been good for the community texas, forfor south texas, and the country. What do you think of that . Guest you know, any trade agreement is going to have winners and losers. Our contention is that for the United States, texas, and for south texas, there have been more losers than winners, particularly among workingclass folks. , you come here to laredo, and as the congressman said, you have a lot of jobs based on nafta trade. Transportation, brokerage, warehousing, service jobs have, and those been created by trade with mexico. The argument could be made that texas is going to be trading with mexico regardless of whether or not there is a Free Trade Agreement. There have been studies that tradehat, in fact, our balance with countries that we do not have Free Trade Agreements with are better than those countries that we do have trade agreements with. So when you look at the promises of nafta, it was going to create good jobs on both sides of the , and thatexcuse me you would have more of a trade balance between the two , and before nafta, we headed 2. 6 billion trade surplus in goods. We do not have the data on services. Now we have a 57 billion dollar trade deficit with mexico. That does not seem to be a successful agreement overall, particularly when you look at the job losses in the United States. In theho lost jobs United States . And were jobs lost in texas . Guest i am sorry . Jobs in thest United States . In the United States, there it is estimated at least one million jobs directly due to jobs lost in the United States. A large percentage of those are manufacturing jobs are the verifiable data we have comes from the trade adjustment assistance numbers, an act which gave workers who lost their jobs due to either off shoring other jobs are the jobs disappeared because of cheaper imports, the net loss, talking about net. Oss, is about one million jobs in texas, about 55,000 jobs. At first, it was primarily manufacturing jobs. More and more, it is covering all types of job categories, including the hightech. , on the 20thsting anniversary of the passage of nafta, i was at a demonstration in dallas in front of the chamber of commerce, and we were joined by a group of workers who had been represented on the teamsters whose jobs had been lost and were moving to mexico. , theu look at right now carrier factory in indiana, which has played a big role in the president ial primary, 1400 jobs moving to mexico. Announced that they are moving jobs to mexico. Is still taking jobs. ,ne thing i would like to say it is taking good paying jobs in the u. S. , shipping them to mexico, and in large part turning them into sweatshop jobs where mexican workers cannot make a living wage to feed their families. Host lets get to calls for bob cash. Lauren in alexandria, minnesota. Caller good morning. The congressman before was on. I do not know where he is coming patrol is notrder good. Why are these drugs coming in and these Illegal Immigrants getting here . Donald trump is right, we need one great wall with one entrance, so we know what is coming in and what is going out. Thank you. Host bob cash, who do you represent . Texas Fair Trade Coalition what is your group, and does your group believe there should be no trade . Texas Fair Trade Coalition is affiliated with the citizens trade campaign, which is an organization composed of unions, religious organizations, family groups, human rights organizations. And texas, we work with many of the same type of organizations. We definitely believe in trade. We think that trade done right can you good thing for people on both sides of the border in texas and for people around the world. We believe that the trade agreements, the way they have been written, actually create a perfect storm where promotes the interests of the economic elites of those countries involved and actually lowers the wages, lowers the Living Standards of most of the other citizens of those countries. Host how do you do a trade agreement right, bob cash . Guest well, to do a trade agreement right, i would have to say you would have to refer to a legislation that senator Sherrod Brown of ohio filed several years ago, the trade act, one of which being you would have to and real labor Environmental Standards that protected the environment, protected labor standards, and raised labor standards in those countries with which we are doing trade. Just recently in el paso, you had workers at a factory in juarez going on strike, finding out they are sense ofss now nafta passed. A trade act done right would balancedoway trade, a trade, to where people in mexico would be making enough money u. S. Madecould buy goods, rather than having starvation wages or, as nafta to 2 million mexican farmers, driving them off their land. That is not a policy that is going to help the majority of people. It is a policy that has made millionaires and billionaires and both u. S. And mexico. Florida,ksonville, good morning. Caller good morning. I have learned on both sides of the border. Initially, the United States giving money to work my way through engineering school. When i graduated, the jobs were not there. I had to move overseas and work in other countries. I want to point to the individual numbers bob is pointing out. We have 95 Million People who do not have jobs. Some are investors and some have other incomes. That we need to move jobs back to the United States. Here are the things missing from tradesome have other incomes. Need to move jobs back to United States. Here are the things missing from trade agreements. Wages one, the total should be the same moving back and forth across the border. Jobsotal number of border should be balanced at the total number of money moving across the border should be balanced. Relatives ini have mexico who are professionals. And they cant get into the United States. But if they were to go across the rio grande, they could get in. We need a concrete wall, like the israelis. Host what are your thoughts . As a represents of many organizations, i do have to say that i dont think any of the organizations and their Coalition Support the wall. We think that is exactly the wrong way to go about it. We are in favor of trade agreements. And workers of the United States after american jobs, we believe that if you look at nafta, one of the reasons that so many people were for it, was because nafta destroyed the family farm system. Recently, i was talking about the workers who went on strike. Hasourkeand big been invited to the picket line and went there and spoke afterwards and said he had never realized what horrific conditions the workers in warez lived under and what struck him was that there were no workers who came from there. They were coming from interior mexico. Just to try to find a better life. And if we are going to create a better life for people in the u. S. And mexico this definitely has not. We do not believe that building , it is going to solve the problem. What will solve the problem is trade agreements that speak to the interests of the 99 , not just 1 . The New York Times reports on the Transpacific Partnership that under the negotiations, there would be wage increases for mexicans. It sayshat the the trade secretary has been meeting with lawmakers to address complaints. And with other nation trade ministers to encourage countries to act on their commitments now on labor rights. Mexicos president recently sent legislation to his congress that would address american complaints about its restrictions on unions. Such measures have been a priority of senator ron wyden from oregon, the protrade lead democrat on the Senate Finance committee. They are unlikely to satisfy most americans. What theou know about mexican president sent to his congress, and will it help . Guest i really dont know anything about that. We know that three weeks ago, i by somebody in mexico that there had been no actual legislation signed. I will say that if you look at ,he Transpacific Partnership there is a real probability that jobs in mexico will be sent to to say now,am we are going to give mexican workers labor rights, at a point when a lot of those jobs are , just asdisappear hundreds of thousands of mexican , when china china entered the world trade organization, the tpp will create a situation where mexican jobs and u. S. Jobs will be going to lowwage countries, undemocratic countries like vietnam, ruled by a communist party. Which has massive human rights violations. While anything that increases good,ghts of mexicans is labor rights might be a good thing but if you dont have a job, labor rights dont do you a lot of good. Mexican at u. S. Workers and Central American workers to our going to see a lot of job losses. From the tpp. Host richard is next from south carolina. Caller hello . Thank you. , i agree with a lot of what youre saying. In south carolina, we have lost so many jobs in the trade agreement. Manufacturing has left the state, it it has devastated us and a lot of other states. You, i do think we need a wall, i disagree with you on that. As an american, watching what i have been watching, i think the immigrants have had an effect on and i have seen people protesting the trump rally, where they come out and wave mexican flags i do think we definitely need and mexican wall. How a wall would affect things, one way or another. Goes, clintone did the tpp thing and it has our country. Host any thoughts about what a wall would do to trade . I really cant tell you what a wall would do to trade. I can tell you what it would do to relationships between the u. S. And mexico. Between texas and mexico. If you are here on the border, it is oneerstand economic entity that has a river running through it. What we would like to have as a allowpolicy, it would people to stay in their country. To allow people to make a decent living in their country. Thatps that is something antiwall proponents can agree on. While i believe that people have basic rights in the united ,tates, citizens or noncitizens everybody deserves to be able to make a living in their own country. That is what we are fighting. It would is being a lot of what pointed out as the positive aspects. Jobs connected to trade with mexico and trade with the central American Free trade , a study done said millioner tpp, 1. 2 Central American workers will lose their job. That is going to be a lot of folks who will be voting with their feet to come to where they can survive and live. Tppwhen a u. S. Policy like or nafta before, creates that situation, when we trade our guns with new mexican workers, none of the folks who benefit from the agreement or the folks who utilize them mean to create hatred. We have members of congress who badd for nafta who created situations in those countries and then when Central Americans want to come to the u. S. , congressmen are the first to condemn them. Stealing our jobs no mexicans stole the jobs. U. S. Eo of a Multinational Corporation send the jobs to mexico. Host lets go to tallahassee, florida. Caller good morning. I have a couple of questions and a comment. That the senator prior to was talking about how 11 billion in Economic Growth . That is a fact why people are flooding over here. Offerst true that nafta a Free Movement of people, and that is why we were inflected by all of the different nationalities . I was wondering if that is true, in reference to nafta. My question is, why is it that our country and our representatives seem to be representing everybody elses country and every other person and not us . If the economy is so good in mexico, why are people so constantly flooding our country . As far as the representative i believe he pretty much spoke up to what he really represents. Not americans. Im wondering if you have any thoughts on that. They supportt everybody else in the world except american taxpayers. You boblot therefore cash. Something to respond to . Well, i do want to say that congressman clay or, who i have known for a long time, does try to the best of his ability to represent all of his district. In the long time i have known him, i have disagreed with him more times then not. The position on nafta and tpp however i do believe that he the try to represent citizens of his district. And i want to say that again, i think that for folks who are concerned about the trade agreement stripping the u. S. Of jobs, they should be thinking more about the folks who negotiated these agreements and who benefit from the agreements. Mexican workers did not benefit from these agreements. You can say yes, it created a lot of jobs, but the wage rate in mexico has gone down. Poverty has gone up. Farming has been destroyed. When peoplee that say look, look at the mexican workers, stealing jobs, they are trying to make us not look at the folks responsible. And if you look at the advisors to the negotiations, it included , 550pp 600 advisors were representatives of major corporations at industries. They are the folks who are benefiting. Not mexican workers, not u. S. Workers. We should be looking at those folks and not trying to scapegoat or blame mexican cases areho, in many forced to come to the United States because they have lost their livelihood. Living, theyake a have been doing jobs which are great jobs in the United States. They are forced into sweatshop labor. We are talking with bob cash, the state director of the texas Fair Trade Coalition. He was talking about the impact of the north American Free trade agreement, and right behind him, that traffic there is often on wheels. A the result of the nafta Free Trade Agreement signed in 1994. The construction that happened is our location. We are alive from the World International trade bridge. This bridge is a 14 lane bridge. It is 977 feet long. It is for commercial traffic only. From 45006000 trucks pass through on a daily trucksaround 3 million yearly each. We have 15 minutes left for more of your phone calls for bob cash. Lets go to marry in texas. Caller thank you for taking my call. Bob, one comment i want to make. Me and my wife were discussing the tpp. We have been talking to our andressman and our senators talking about debunking the whole thing about tpp and the fact that 80 of the American People dont want it. If they were going to put it off until after the election so they could cram it through on a lame duck session. And i guarantee you that is what they want to do. Host that is what the New York Times is reporting this morning. Did you have a question . Respondjust want you to to the strategy they are referring to, that they were trying to get this through during a lameduck session. Guest that is certainly one of the things they are looking at. It appears that the administration up until recently itill hoping to have seems less likely but we have to be prepared. I understood they were contacting their congressman about this issue. Nafta is bad, the trade Pacific Partnership is worse. Contract ould should contact their congressman. It to take place during a lameduck session. Because every president ial candidate, bernie sanders, Hillary Clinton and donald trump have come out against the tpp. Host lets go to new hampshire. Darrell. Caller good morning. Mr. Cache, thank you for your service. The reason i was calling because is that every time the United States signed a Free Trade Agreement with anyone, a problem is that anyone the only one who keeps to it is us. ,nd everybody we try to help the smaller folks, the only one out are the corporations and the top 1 . When they signed the last agreement, jamaica. It was to produce a nanas. A big National Conglomerate came in and sold bananas for . 10 on the dollar. The same thing happens in mexico, like you said with small farmers. I was innoticed manufacturing for several years, i worked for two companies and both Companies Went to mexico like i said, we always get the short end of the stick. Mean, you could build a wall, it doesnt matter how long or how far. Also, all the immigrants that come here, if you start deporting everybody you would have to clean out all the hotels in florida. Though to any hotel in florida from jacksonville to miami, they are filled with Foreign Workers because americans dont want to do that work. Host i will leave it there. Bob cash, can you give an example of under the nafta trade agreement, where the u. S. Stuck to its promises but mexico did not or companies did not . Well, it there are jobs on both side of the border. I cant think of anything right now in terms of the government or specific Companies Breaking any nafta standards. Is, the way nafta was set up, it was bad for the majority of folks. I do have a little more conversing in china. As far as the world trade organization. Breaking those if you remember the world trade , it was supposed to act like a market economy. And just recently, there have been several examples from china of breaking trade rules by dumping products in the United States and dumping them in a ,anner where they were so cheap it requires stand pegs for drilling. Products just the Steelworkers Union has been complaining about the chinese bringing it and there is an investigation and i know that china. Were put back on im not sure if they are still in effect. China has a pretty consistent policy of breaking trade rules. Host lets go to california. Good morning. Caller good morning. Believe in trade, results. We know it works. I have two comments to make. In south make a car building factory in mexico and sell it in mexico. Dont bring it back across the border. We should have the same trade policy in china, korea, japan it is a simple ideology. Host mr. Cache . Guest i really could not understand most of what he was saying. Can you tell me what his point was . Host i dont know if i was following exactly, but he was talking about better trade policies with canada and mexico and other countries. Well, i agree that we need better trade policies. And freealance trade labor standards and to look after the environment. And we need to set up a situation where wages and environmental degradation is lowered. Which is exactly what the Free Trade Agreement motives have done. In all of the countries. I believe there was a study done that showed that countries in which we did not have free trade think we hadth, i a better balance of trade with those countries then the ones we have Free Trade Agreements with. Agreement,ree trade negotiated by george w. Bush, campaignedbama against it but once in office, he supported it. And he renegotiated certain sections of it. Pork andtions included beef, bacon products and auto parts. And after the korea free trade , not only issed the trade deficit greater with korea than it was before, those to areas are renegotiating be better had the highest trade deficit. Wherehave a situation theuse of the trade and nafta template, even when you try to make things better and you renegotiate something, it can turn out worse. We have the korea Free Trade Agreement, it is a Free Trade Agreement based on the nafta template. , which is like nafta. Templatewill the nafta with lower tariffs, with the negotiations means that mexico lowered its tariffs on goods coming in . Is that the template . Why is that not a good thing . Guest i would say the template is that you are already starting , and now,ariffs whenever we talk about trade agreements, a lot of people understandably think it is just lowering a tariff. Nafta didnt just lower a tariff. It mexico the petition the government to sue. The same Way Companies have moved in the United States, the way we have the right to sue the government if they felt like existing laws or new laws were interfering. So they set up an international and independent trade court , which prevents them from getting involved. When i say nafta template, nafta was more of a roadmap for rules for Multinational Corporations, rules of how trade was conducted. , less than six sections deal with trade. The others deal with the rules of International Trade. And the rules are being written by Multinational Corporations. Would thinks, we that dropping tariffs would be a good thing. For countries like china, which makes the rules, dumps subsidize products in the American Market in order to drive american business, we would think tariffs would be a good thing. But nafta is much more than lowering tariffs. I will get in one more phone call here from leonard in dayton, ohio. We are running out of time sorry about that. Gary in north carolina. Good morning. Caller good morning. A question for bob cash. These give us the name of the person that introduced the nafta to our congress. Can you do that, please . Truth, i tell you the dont know the name of the congressman who introduced nafta. I know that nafta began to be negotiated under George H W Bush congresss passed by under bill clinton. Bill clinton supported it at the time. Agreementevery trade that is passed has been passed with support of a president , whether they were democrat or republican. In the majority of Democrats Congress have voted against the Free Trade Agreement, a lot of times, overwhelmingly. And the majority of republicans have voted for them. Along with a minority of democrats. In whoou are interested is behind the trade agreements you particularly since the majority of the support is coming from the majority of republicans if the republicans voted against ,he fast track to expedite tpp 28 democrats voted for it. Sorry, 50 republicans voted against that. Democrats, 28y of democrats voted for the fast track. I would tell everybody to contact your congress people. Those who have a republican congressman, and if you are not happy with the trade deal, contact your representative. Finish your thought. Im sorry . Host you are finding what . Oh, finding that just as many republicans, republican voters, are opposed. Member,t just a union it is not just environmentalists. Republican voted against the fast track, he is 100 in favor of free trade but if you round up the voting it was ansttrack, issue that was raised at his townhall meeting. Host bob quast remapped a bit of there. Our viewers can go to citizens trade. Org to learn more about the texas prayer trade coalition. I want to thank mr. Cash. I want to thank all of our guest this morning. The city of laredo, u. S. Customs board and protections for access to our locations while we were in the laredo over the past few days here at all of the officers and agents there who spoke to us while we were on the ground back in april. Letting our viewers get a better idea of what it is like to live in this border town. We are
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