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Welcome to the United States of North America ...

The Canadians surrendered their national security to the USA starting sometime back in the '60's, with the creation and installation of the DEW Line of over-the-horizon early warning radar sites on the northern coast of Canada.

Today, the Canadian military is for all practical purposes, nonexistent.

Now, head south and take a look at the southern border's security problems. Without listing all the various problems here, consider that the most logical point of force location to close the border is not at the US-Mexico demarcation, but in Panama.

Jimmy Carter set back the national expansion plan by fifty years, by giving back the Panama Canal. In the past few years, his rhetoric gave the lie to his claim of patriotism, and he is now known for his socialist beliefs and the thought that peace and stability is preferable to freedom and liberty.

Vincente Fox and the State Department are working on a program where simply put, the social security and other benefit programs run by both governments are being slowly rationalized, with the intermediate goal of having the US government pay the benefits to Mexican citizens living here, and vice versa. This allows for a simple, bulk payment between governments to cover the differential costs between the two groups of recipients.

It also allows for what is nothing less than the social absorption of transient populations, and the eventual merging of the institutions of government. Dual citizenship is an interim possibility, and would - like it or not - solve most of the 'illegal' immigration of Mexican citizens into this country.

It's a National Security issue, or that is how it will be sold, over the next 25 years or so.