- The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the
cat out of the bag about what's really behind our trade agreements and
security partnerships with the other North American countries. A 59-page
CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by
2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common
"outer security perimeter."
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- "Community" means integrating the United States
with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada.
"Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S.,
Mexico and Canada.
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- "Community" is sometimes called "space"
but the CFR goal is clear: "a common economic space ... for all people
in the region, a space in which trade, capital, and people flow freely."
The CFR's "integrated" strategy calls for "a more open border
for the movement of goods and people."
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- The CFR document lays "the groundwork for the freer
flow of people within North America." The "common security perimeter"
will require us to "harmonize visa and asylum regulations" with
Mexico and Canada, "harmonize entry screening," and "fully
share data about the exit and entry of foreign nationals."
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- This CFR document, called "Building a North American
Community," asserts that George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente
Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments"
to this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas on March
23, 2005. The three adopted the "Security and Prosperity Partnership
of North America" and assigned "working groups" to fill
in the details.
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- It was at this same meeting, grandly called the North
American summit, that President Bush pinned the epithet "vigilantes"
on the volunteers guarding our border in Arizona.
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- A follow-up meeting was held in Ottawa on June 27, where
the U.S. representative, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff,
told a news conference that "we want to facilitate the flow of traffic
across our borders." The White House issued a statement that the Ottawa
report "represents an important first step in achieving the goals
of the Security and Prosperity Partnership."
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- The CFR document calls for creating a "North American
preference" so that employers can recruit low-paid workers from anywhere
in North America. No longer will illegal aliens have to be smuggled across
the border; employers can openly recruit foreigners willing to work for
a fraction of U.S. wages.
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- Just to make sure that bringing cheap labor from Mexico
is an essential part of the plan, the CFR document calls for "a seamless
North American market" and for "the extension of full labor mobility
to Mexico."
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- The document's frequent references to "security"
are just a cover for the real objectives. The document's "security
cooperation" includes the registration of ballistics and explosives,
while Canada specifically refused to cooperate with our Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI).
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- To no one's surprise, the CFR plan calls for massive
U.S. foreign aid to the other countries. The burden on the U.S. taxpayers
will include so-called "multilateral development" from the World
Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, "long-term loans in
pesos," and a North American Investment Fund to send U.S. private
capital to Mexico.
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- The experience of the European Union and the World Trade
Organization makes it clear that a common market requires a court system,
so the CFR document calls for "a permanent tribunal for North American
dispute resolution." Get ready for decisions from non-American judges
who make up their rules ad hoc and probably hate the United States anyway.
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- The CFR document calls for allowing Mexican trucks "unlimited
access" to the United States, including the hauling of local loads
between U.S. cities. The CFR document calls for adopting a "tested
once" principle for pharmaceuticals, by which a product tested in
Mexico will automatically be considered to have met U.S. standards.
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- The CFR document demands that we implement "the
Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States
and Mexico." That's code language for putting illegal aliens into
the U.S. Social Security system, which is bound to bankrupt the system.
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- Here's another handout included in the plan. U.S. taxpayers
are supposed to create a major fund to finance 60,000 Mexican students
to study in U.S. colleges.
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- To ensure that the U.S. government carries out this plan
so that it is "achievable" within five years, the CFR calls for
supervision by a North American Advisory Council of "eminent persons
from outside government . . . along the lines of the Bilderberg" conferences.
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- The best known Americans who participated in the CFR
Task Force that wrote this document are former Massachusetts Governor William
Weld and Bill Clinton's immigration chief Doris Meissner. Another participant,
American University Professor Robert Pastor, presented the CFR plan at
a friendly hearing of Senator Richard Lugar's Foreign Relations Committee
on June 9.
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- Ask your Senators and Representatives which side they
are on: the CFR's integrated North American Community or U.S. sovereignty
guarded by our own borders.
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