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Following his election in 2000, Mexican president Vicente Fox told an audience in California that his government would "use all our persuasion and all our talent to bring together the U.S., Canadian and Mexican governments so that in five or ten years, the border is totally open to the free movement of workers." Fox was similarly candid in a 2002 address to an audience in Madrid: "Eventually, our long-range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada, our other regional partner, an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union."
The actions and statements of some U.S. politicians have been similarly telling. The Bush administration's proposed "guest worker" program, which is amnesty for illegal immigrants, is a key part of this trinational integration scheme.
Source: US of NA
Originally posted by billybob
it may be time for a seperatist movement in many places at once, lol.
maybe overdue, even.
decentralize and win the survival game.
learn the gecko lesson.
Originally posted by crisko
Losing our national identity? How so? We are a country of immigrants how can we lose that?
I'd rather have free and open borders rather than an "Iron Curtain".
Is greed all we are about? What happend to "bring us your weak, your poor"? Should we hang a no vacancy sign on the statue of liberty?
You like the food, just not the people huh?
Originally posted by crisko
Losing our national identity? How so? We are a country of immigrants how can we lose that?
I'd rather have free and open borders rather than an "Iron Curtain".
Is greed all we are about? What happend to "bring us your weak, your poor"? Should we hang a no vacancy sign on the statue of liberty?
You like the food, just not the people huh?
[edit on 1-5-2006 by crisko]
Originally posted by Nygdan
Surprisingly, this is maybe the third thread on this very subject, and each time is it similarly misrepresented or misunderstood.
THe report was written by an independant committe paid for by the Council on Foreign Relations, itself an non-governmental group.
It looked at what sorts of things can be done to make the US international border more secure, and also do other things like increase trade, make people safer, control immigration, etc. What it recommended was the US, Canada, and Mexico establishing a 'common security perimeter'. What this meant was that the three governments would work together on border issues, such that, when people on US watchlists entered mexico, the US would be notified. When they moved through mexico, the US government would be informed, and vice versa. So that instead of each one on their own trying to inadequately patrol their own borders in the dark, they'd all work together.
The report made suggestions for what can be reasonably accomplished in 1, 5, 10 years, etc.
It was not a government report, of any government.
It is not government policy, for any of the three that make up north america.
It does not involve the destruction of the US Constitution.
It does undermine the sovereignty of any of the three nations, and it doesn't mix their respective governments together.