Like the European Common Market, NAFTA was billed to an unsuspecting public in 1992 as a free-trade agreement, when in fact it was simply the first step toward the supra-national pan-American political entity that will be called the American Union. Or perhaps, as the current parlance has it, the Union of the Americas. This is why George Bush and the Republican leadership so freely – and otherwise inexplicably – ignore the will of the Republican Party membership, which is strongly in favor of enforcing the immigration laws, if not tightening them. There is no point in attempting to prevent Mexican citizens from entering the United States when citizens of Mexico, the USA and Canada will soon enjoy a shared national identity. This is also why grass-roots efforts to change the status quo of de facto open borders are doomed to failure, as any attempt by state and local politicians to enforce the law in border states will be quickly shut down by federal organizations and the judiciary, and as President Fox helpfully points out, private attempts will be prosecuted in any court likely to find them illegal. I agree with this, but it appears that the AU/FTAA has stalled, perhaps permanently. Other articles indicate that the nations of south and central America have turned their backs on FTAA, because they are afraid of DC. Instead, they are turning to free trade pacts with each other (mercusor, sp?) and with the EU (both Mexico and Brazil have done this) or with strengthening ties with China (Venezuala).
I believe the traitors in DC thought it was a done deal, the destruction of the Coonstitution and US sovereignty, but both might yet be preserved because of antiamerican sentiment south of the Mexican border. Nafta might morph into an officially open-borders monstrosity, but I think the AU/FTAA is dead.
I believe the FTAA is slowed, but not permanently stalled.All these threads and posts were put up in the last day or two.
The East Asian countries are setting up their own economic zone, exactly in the same model of the FTAA, in the next month or so.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1366765/posts?page=1#1
The Russians are creating an economic zone with CIS. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1366765/posts?page=8#8
The move to create 10 world regions is creating these economic zones:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365865/posts?page=65#65
The Asian countries move to "institutionalize" the summits and create an organization to "keep records" is to create a structure just like the OAS and Summit of the Americas
Trade is being used to force economic integration
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1364319/posts?page=170#170
And a big step toward getting our hemisphere in line is the New Partnership for North America, or NAFTA-plus which the President, Mexico's president and the PM of Canada will be discussing at the Bush ranch in a few days.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365865/posts