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When President George W. Bush met the Mexican and Canadian heads of state in Cancun, Mexico in April 2006, he said the meeting celebrated the first anniversary of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and was a follow-up to last year's Summit in Waco, Texas. At last year's meeting on March 23, 2005 at Bush's ranch and at Waco, George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and assigned "working groups" to fill in the details. A follow-up meeting was held in Ottawa on June 27, 2005 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." This plan was spelled out in detail in a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) 59-page document. It describes a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter." "Community" means creating "a common economic space . . . for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital, and people flow freely." That 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. The CFR plan calls for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people" and "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." This plan would create 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. 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." Senator Richard Lugar held a friendly hearing before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee at which American University Professor Robert A. Pastor (a member of the CFR Task Force) testified that President Bush is a staunch supporter of North American integration dating from the Guanajuato Proposal which he and Vicente Fox signed in February 2001. There is much, much more to this subversive plan. Tell your Senators that our freedom depends on keeping our sovereignty -- with our own borders. |
