re: Did you know that Mexico is building a competitor to the Panama canal?

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From my understanding its not an actual canal at all. Its a Train that carries cargo back and forth

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Sounds like the story behind the hwy 190 bridge.

The U.S. could build a canal along the I-40 corridor from the Atlantic to the Pacific and,
1) it would safer and more efficient than anything built by Mexico
2) completed before Mexico's canal.
3) have much less piracy and environmental troubles.

YouTube link

The YouTube link is posted in comments on the Twitter feed, but I wanted to post it here. Pretty interesting video and lots of information on “near shoring” that was interesting.

Once they are done with theirs, we can build ours in the Rio Grande!!

I wonder where the illegal emigrant crossing will be.

Nicaragua has the best chance to build a superior canal there at the lake Managua pass.

We should help do it before China makes their move.

So, if a Mexican worker falls into the water; would that make him a…ummmmm, never mind.

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Did you know Nicaragua was first considered for the canal instead of Panama? Revisiting that is definitely an option.

Nicaragua even tried to get China to build a canal in 2013, so they're definitely still willing.

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Yep. Estimated cost ~$50B.

Had it not been for a postage stamp issued in 1900 showing a smoking volcano in Lake Nicaragua, the US may well have chosen Nicaragua as the route.

Some interesting data
London->Shanghai
Via North West passage 14,000 km
Via Panama Canal 25,000 km
Via Suez Canal, 20,000 km
New York -> Tokyo
Via North West passage 13,000 km
Via Panama Canal 18,000 km
Via South America, 30,000 km

That should help slow down the alien caravans