ERASING AMERICA'S BORDERS....(Expo)sing the Truth on Illegal Immigration and Free Trade

By early next year (2005) Congress will convene and decide whether or not to push through the incognito FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). If this free-trade pact goes through successfully, a revolution inconceivable since America’s founding will sweep across the American front, unleashing widespread economic instability by uniting North America’s market with Mexico’s, and eventually South America’s. Together, this process will consolidate North and South America’s monetary system, trade, market, political hemisphere, and regional infrastructure. On top of this, the Bush Administration’s recently proposed “Amnesty” plan will compound the situation by flooding America with an influx of mass-immigration from Mexico and abroad, which will be a prelude to further diluting American culture and fleecing American jobs. So is this all just a shot in the dark, a fantasy or unreality? A matter of fact, this is not political hype, but as real as it gets. The process has already begun—ever so quietly—behind closed doors. Plans for the FTAA were opened publicly in 1994 at the Summit of the Americas in Miami, Florida. The Bush administration, mass media and a few inside sources have whimsically portrayed the FTAA and NAFTA as some kind of juvenile equal-status trade environment, which would supposedly create growth in business, jobs and the economy. It would be stupendous if this were so, but unfortunately the Bush administration has kept the FTAA and NAFTA’s true objectives and motives behind public scrutiny. The administration also forecasts that the FTAA will bring a huge boost in U.S. exports, but actually the opposite will occur. EU’s Free-Trade Mirrors American Free Trade

The European Union and the earlier European Community, are important subjects to examine for understanding the true nature of “free-trade”. The EC involvement with free-trade and the “Common Market” are almost identical to the Free-Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Europe’s “free trade zone” and “Common Market” for many years led people to believe that economic and social prosperity would benefit European communities. But the opposite has occurred. In 1970 European countries began witnessing a “free-trade zone” and Common Market system developing. Worsthorn, a well known writer for the London Sunday Telegraph commented on the deception that had been occurring. In a 1991 column, he said that: “twenty years ago [1971], when the process began [Common Market], there was no question of losing sovereignty.” Remarkably though, the creative charade of hiding behind the curtain didn’t surface its ugly head until the year 2000. Some undisclosed documents revealed true lies and mischievous deceit: “What these papers revealed more starkly than ever before”, says British journalist Christopher Booker, “was just how deliberately the Heath Government and the Foreign office set out to conceal from the British people the Common Market’s true purpose. They were fully aware that it was intended to be merely the first step towards creating a politically United Europe, but they were determined to hide this from view.” Booker continued saying that, “for 40 years British politicians have consistently tried to portray it [the Common Market and EU] to their fellow-citizens as little more than an economic arrangement: a kind of free-trading area primarily concerned with creating jobs and prosperity.” Ever since Europe’s Common Market and free-trade began emerging, it has created nothing but economic down-sizing, loss of jobs, under-development and degradation for Europe’s people. Since 1971, EU countries haven’t become stronger and more prosperous by free-trade and a Common Market, but steadily have become weaker in their ability to grow economically, populously, and independently. Whatever Euro-politicians have said or claimed about the prosperity of free-trade and the Common Market in the EU, they really are only contradictions to the reality of the situation. They say “all is well”, but statistics document otherwise. It is interesting that while Europe’s economy was crumbling and jobs were diminishing, that industrial and manufacturing jobs were being handed over to government and monopolistic corporations. Ironically, the same situation is currently happening in America today! The preponderance of deceit that EU politicians have wielded over their people for nearly 34 years resembles the same charade currently being used in America.. Back to present times, on December 17, 2003, U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick proclaimed that the Bush administration had manufactured a “cutting edge” Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with South American countries—El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Mr. Zoellick noted that the U.S. is “step by step, country by country, region by region…opening markets with top-notch comprehensive FTAs that set the standard”, referring to the nifty trade pacts he has been so diligently molding for the Bush Administration. It should be noted that CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) is a precursor to the more hemispherical FTAA—a stepping stone you could say. Continuing with Mr. Zoellich’s December 17th commentary—during a press release—he described CAFTA’s objective as being affiliated with a global agenda. “The culmination of a year of intense negotiations” says the release, “CAFTA fulfills a key U.S. objective of opening markets with free-trade partners, while continuing to push trade liberalization through the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and globally in the Doha talks in the World Trade organization.” Mr. Bush himself revealed the ultimate objective of the FTAA in a commentary just three days before the 2001 Summit of the Americas in Quebec. He said that “[The FTAA] will make our hemisphere the largest free-trade area in the world, encompassing 34 countries and 800 million people.” It certainly will be a brave new world if free-trade is opened up to 800 million people. An Amnesty Nightmare

While the Bush administration continues eroding away our freedoms by continuing the unification of the western hemisphere, liquidating U.S. borders has become another objective. January 7, 2004, President Bush addressed the nation at the White House, calling for a “new temporary worker program” for illegal immigrants who presently reside within and out of the U.S. He said the legal status “will last three years and will be renewable.” Mr. Bush claims that “our current limits on legal immigration are too low,” (even though 75% of downtown Los Angeles—and numerous other metropolitan areas are owned largely by foreigners). He also called for implementations to “increase the annual number of green cards that can lead to citizenship” for illegal aliens presently occupied here, as well as any other illegal immigrants that wish to cross our unprotected borders. Mr. Bush’s “Amnesty” plan not only provides the occasion for the ten to fifteen million illegal immigrants currently living in this country to infiltrate the U.S., but also all those who live in foreign countries across the globe who seek to participate in the program. The solution to the immigration problem is deteriorating so quickly that America might as well put up a sign exclaiming: “All terrorist organizations and radical hate groups are welcome to participate in exploiting America—so come—cross our borders and take our freedom.” In light of Mr. Bush’s delightfully offered “amnesty”—which is branded for disaster—he inquisitively shows the up-most concern for America’s poor economic condition, yet mysteriously he continues opening up countless doors for American jobs to be outsourced by legal and illegal low wage takers. Over the past ten years, more than 2 million low-skilled American workers have been displaced from their jobs, “writes CNN financial analyst Lou Dobbs. And each 10 percent increase in the immigrant workforce decreases U.S. wages by 3.5 percent,” Dobbs says. Mr. Bush and his iron-clad followers, encouragingly stipulate that illegal immigrants are taking jobs nobody wants, however, Steve Camoreta of the Center for Immigration Studies, remarkably discerns that “what they really mean is that they are doing jobs that they as middle-and upper-class people don’t want.” It really is a matter of economics; for instance, as the illegal immigrant workforce out-sources middle and upper-class American jobs, the supply of labor goes up, therefore submerging its price [wage]. An example in correlation goes like this: When the amount of currency in the money supply is increased, (as relating to an immigrant workforce), the value of it decreases—therefore causing inflation. Instead of inflation of the money supply though, inflation of the immigrant workforce creates economic instability. The average middle and upper-class American job losses its wage [value], just as an increased currency in the money supply losses its value—so do middle class jobs that are replaced by a low wage immigrant workforce. The open-border policy that Mr. Bush has been currently undertaking for some time now was confirmed by Mexican President Vincent Fox, in a speech in Madrid, where he explained the important value of mixing, and finally eliminating the distinction between legal and illegal immigration—therefore blending the merger of Mexico with America. He remarked that: “Eventually our long range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada….an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union, with the good of attending to future themes [such as] the future prosperity of North America, and the movement of capital, goods, services and persons.” If America follows in the footsteps which were spoken by President Vincent Fox and President Bush, America will no longer see borders protecting her, but instead, one regional border engulfing an entire Northern and Southern American hemisphere. In fact, soon after Mr. Bush took office, he and Mexican President Vincent Fox signed a document confirming such unification. In the “Guanajuato Proposal”, it states that their governments would “strive to consolidate a North American economic community whose benefits reach the lesser-developed areas of the region and extend to the most vulnerable social groups in our countries.” Whatever promotional tools that both presidents have used to term their provocative message of “integral immigration”—whether for painting an illumination of “prosperity”, or focusing on stimulating the “vulnerable”—truth speaks louder than words. Their globalist agenda will only reap disunity among social groups, bring instability in the economy, and fleece American jobs. And if their political master plan is left undetected, it will only lead to further destruction (if not entire destruction) of our constitution, and proceed to subjugating America’s sovereignty and obliterating our borders. If this scheme were to succeed, it would transform America into a supra trans-continental migratory trade highway!

The emergence of mass illegal and legal immigration, free-trade, and opening up trans-continental markets between North and South America will predominantly centralize the economies of the two continents and vamp political unity. Just as Mr. Zoellick confirms: “This agreement will further the regional integration that the Central Americans themselves have begun, and compliment our vital work on the Free Trade Area of the Americas.” To fully understand the depravity and future jeopardy of the FTAA and NAFTA all one needs to do is look at Europe, where 30+ years of free-trade and “harmonization” of business, industry, agriculture, transportation, immigration, education, and soon to be defense, have amounted to nothing but a transfer of power from the people to the government. “Harmonization” (as so quoted by our leaders) is nothing more than consolidation and centralization of the economy and political sector. It is a process of transferring civil powers to multi-national and international political powers (which was the case in the creation of the monstrous E.U). It is said that once economic union forms (which is what NAFTA and the FTAA are constructed to do) that political union follows in its footsteps. And once unionization is established, independent national sovereignty will give way to multi-regional international sovereignty. Most people relate to this kind of political/economical run system with globalism, socialism or a New World Order. In 1958, in the Congressional Record, (p.2560), Senator George W. Malone clarified in some words on what respectfully is associated with free-trade and immigration. He said: “A great editor, Mr. E.F. Tompkins, of the New York Journal-American, has written five important articles regarding the relationship between free-trade, free-immigration, and world government…..In a letter addressed to me, Mr. Tompkins stated: ‘The free trade movement is not a separate entity. It is related in this country to the opposition to immigration regulation, and both by adoption or devolution are parts of the world government movement’….On June 28, 1952, I said on the Senate floor—and my remarks were reprinted under the title “Free Economic System Versus Fabian Socialistic Program”: ‘The international socialism plan calls for (a) Reduction of all barriers to the flow of international trade, (b) Access to raw material of all sorts for all nations, (c) Access to markets for all nations, (d) World organization through which the nations can share freely in the supplies and the markets of the world. There can be only one result and only one final solution [if] these objectives are allowed to obtain, and that is, of course, the leveling of the living standards of the United States of America with the sweatshop-labor nations of the world’. It is remarkable how Mr. Malone’s remarks replicate 46 years later—to the tee— how America has followed his program description. From Mr. Malone’s analogy, (a) Reduction of all barriers to the flow of international trade: President Bush is further compounding this by opening up our borders to mass-immigration, and (c) He is opening markets through out the western hemisphere with trade-pacts such as NAFTA, FTAA, and CAFTA, and (d) The consolidation of the world’s economies which has not yet been fully replicated. There can only be one thing left to be said about free immigration and free trade, that is—if it took 40 years of opening markets and spreading free-trade across European countries, which then transformed into the European Union, then it very well could be that North and South America will similarly merge like the E.U., except it may only take a quarter the time to accomplish. What will our borders look like in just a year or two if the FTAA successfully passes through Congress in January 2005? It would be an event unparalleled in America’s two hundred twenty eight years of independence. What we see today in America as a single independent nation will no longer be in America tomorrow. Just as the Revolutionary War freed America from hierarchical governance in 1776, the FTAA and NAFTA will excavate any lasting remnant of freedom that existed from that period.

The free trade movement is not a separate entity. It is related in this country to the opposition to immigration regulation, and both by adoption or devolution are parts of the world government movement’….

On June 28, 1952, I said on the Senate floor—and my remarks were reprinted under the title “Free Economic System Versus Fabian Socialistic Program”: ‘The international socialism plan calls for (a) Reduction of all barriers to the flow of international trade, (b) Access to raw material of all sorts for all nations, (c) Access to markets for all nations, (d) World organization through which the nations can share freely in the supplies and the markets of the world. There can be only one result and only one final solution [if] these objectives are allowed to obtain, and that is, of course, the leveling of the living standards of the United States of America with the sweatshop-labor nations of the world’.

--Senator George W. Malone

Thank you. This is a very important topic. It's perhaps the most significant threat ever to sovereignty and self-determination for citizens of the United States.

I say this because we're not talking about 1930,40s Germany or a Japan from the same era. No, what we're talking about here will take place at our borders and on our soil. It won't look like a threat. It will be wrapped in nice pretty paper with a great big bow, but when you open it look out, it's a stinker like nothing before it.

Through NGOs, the United Nations will be up to it's chin in this effort. Socialist sell-outs will abound.

Being sold as a trade-agreement, this is nothing less than global governance brought to a nation near you. Your own!

If this passes, every soldier that died to create and protect this nation will have done so that we could give self-determination, our moral judgement, everything that we are, away.

Citizens from other nations that we do not vote for will be making the rules. People from Canada to Mexico to Columbia to Peru to Brazil and every other point in this hemisphere, will have equal say about what goes on in the United States, as you do. Sound like something you want to risk your children's future on?

Please folks, if you ever gave a damn about this nation, this is the time to stand up and be counted. LOUDLY!

I don't generally say things like this, but here goes anyway. If there were ever a righteous cause for a lynch mob, this could be the one.

I guess the socialists have won. It seems no one wants America to a superpower anymore. We must all be equal.

Let the border die!!!

Remittances from the US to Latin America, 2004

Total amount sent via remittances to Latin America		Average amount sent by each Latin American immigrant
California	$9,610 million	Maryland	$2,897.00
New York	$3,562 million	North Carolina	$2,864.00
Texas	$3,180 million	Alabama	$2,797.00
Florida	$2,450 million	Georgia	$2,743.00
Illinois	$1,528 million	Virginia	$2,671.00
New Jersey	$1,371 million	District Of Columbia	$2,629.00
Georgia	$947 million	New York	$2,493.00
North Carolina	$833 million	Massachusetts	$2,491.00
Arizona	$606 million	Missouri	$2,303.00
Virginia	$586 million	New Jersey	$2,261.00
Colorado	$544 million	South Carolina	$2,261.00
Massachusetts	$527 million	Arkansas	$2,244.00
Maryland	$500 million	Connecticut	$2,230.00
Nevada	$447 million	Ohio	$2,169.00
Washington	$353 million	Nebraska	$2,166.00
Oregon	$218 million	Tennessee	$2,132.00
Michigan	$192 million	Indiana	$2,084.00
Indiana	$190 million	Pennsylvania	$2,050.00
Pennsylvania	$180 million	Michigan	$2,041.00
Utah	$164 million	Kentucky	$2,033.00
Tennessee	$162 million	Colorado	$2,008.00
Oklahoma	$156 million	Washington	$1,950.00
Wisconsin	$152 million	Iowa	$1,887.00
Alabama	$149 million	Minnesota	$1,877.00
South Carolina	$148 million	Oklahoma	$1,870.00
Minnesota	$147 million	Wisconsin	$1,849.00
Connecticut	$129 million	Illinois	$1,841.00
Arkansas	$114 million	Nevada	$1,823.00
Ohio	$108 million	California	$1,787.00
Missouri	$105 million	Utah	$1,785.00
New Mexico	$103 million	Idaho	$1,774.00
Idaho	$96 million	Kansas	$1,732.00
District Of Columbia	$94 million	Louisiana	$1,569.00
Kansas	$94 million	Oregon	$1,482.00
Nebraska	$80 million	Florida	$1,363.00
Iowa	$69 million	Texas	$1,249.00
Louisiana	$61 million	Arizona	$1,132.00
Kentucky	$53 million	New Mexico	$776.00
37 States and DC	$30,008 million	37 States and DC	$1,804.00
Remaining States	$132 million	Remaining States	$1,854.00
Total US	$30,140 million	Total US	$1,805.00

All that money, which would be spent here on our roads, hospitals, institutions, children and generally improving the financial wherewithal of every American...gone.

And this has been done by subterfuge and corruption of our governmental agencies, the dead silent main stream media, and the public/private partnerships with NGOs and business, cutting the individual American citizen compeletly out of the process. The internationalists among us know that Americans do not want to see their country erased-- at least this generation doesn't. Thats why all the namecalling when these issues, and the issue of "free trade" is discussed.

Free Trade
Dear Editor:
Although Dick Cheney claims that on November 2nd America gave President Bush a mandate to implement his agenda for our nation’s future, it certainly wasn’t a blank check. Moreover, the administration’s vision for a badly misnamed Free Trade Area of the Americas was barely even explained to voters.

Secretary of State Colin Powell told business leaders in Sao Paolo, Brazil, that the United States was firmly committed to seeing this Pan-American free trade deal take effect early next year. But is this what Americans really want?

Negotiations for an FTAA were actually launched at the 1994 Miami Summit of the Americas by the Clinton administration. The announced intent was to expand NAFTA into a hemispheric-wide free trade zone. But the architects of this proposal have revealed that they are seeking much more than economic integration of this hemisphere. Indeed they seek political integration with a new layer of supra-government modeled after the European Union.

In their 1994 study entitled “Western Hemisphere Economic Integration,” published by the Institute of International Economics, Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jeffrey Schott were candid about the ultimate aims of this drive:
“The more countries that participate in integration and the wider its scope, the greater the need for some institutional mechanism to administer the arrangements and to resolve the inevitable disputes and the stronger the cause for a common legal framework.”

Americans had better not go down the EU road without a lot more explanations than we have been given. It’s time to tell Congress to reject any agreement for an FTAA.
Frank Ferrari,
Bayside

We're doomed! The sky is falling! The same arguments were made against NAFTA and once again the doom and gloomers were wrong.

Opening up markets is NOT socialist, closing them is. Free trade is economic freedom. Why are we afraid of competing against the Mexicans, Brazilians, and Argentines?

The reason for the illegal immigration is simple. Welfare and other social programs. People will no sneak over the border to make $3/hr working in a field. Their wages are supplemented in the form of free health care, food stamps, subsidized housing, welfare checks, free education. They are really making a lot more than $3/hr with all the free govt. benefits they get.

The reason that the problem of illegal immigration doesn't get fixed is that the rats want cheap votes and the republicans want cheap workers for the farmers in flyover country.

There is not free trade in Europe. Protectionism abounds there. Except for N. Korea, Europe's markets are more closed and restricted than anywhere else.

The misunderstanding of economics in this country is frightening. Trade is not a zero sum game. We are Americans and if we want to, we can compete against the mexicans, the chinese, and the indians.

Do we really want to be like N. Korea where there is virtually no trade? Or do we want to be like Hong Kong where income per capita has risen from $200 after WWII to $29,000 today?

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