Slotkin, Stevens seek ban on Chinese vehicles, even for day trips

Democratic U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens announced a joint effort Wednesday to ban all entry of Chinese nameplate vehicles from Canada and Mexico into the United States, even for temporary visits to border cities in states like Michigan, California and Texas.

Senator Elissa Slotkin: "I've called them surveillance packages on wheels. What's to stop them from taking full-motion video, or LiDAR geolocation on our sensitive infrastructure sites, our military bases, and seeing the geolocation of individual leaders who are driving in these things?"

"We have to recognize that state-owned enterprises that exploit open, free-market capitalism and our industrial sector are a real danger to the United States and to Michigan's manufacturing base."

"I'm not going to allow Michigan, as one of just a handful of states in the country whose central economic driver is manufacturing, to get steamrolled by bad trade practices. We've got to put Michigan first."