Posted on 05/18/2005 3:16:34 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
The United States, Canada and Mexico should establish a common security perimeter to guard against terrorism in North America, a tri-national independent task force said in a report released on Tuesday.
The countries should police their borders together to help border trade, allow easier movement of citizens and to keep out potential security threats, the task force said at New York's Council on Foreign Relations.
"If our two borders, the one between Canada and the United States and the U.S. and Mexico, became a frontline for security the impact that would have on normal relations and economic relations would be profound," said co-chairman John Manley, a former Canadian deputy prime minister and minister of finance.
The task force was sponsored by private groups in each of the three countries including the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, and there was no indication that governments would act on the proposals.
The report, titled "Building a North American Community," also called for free movement within the continent for citizens through a North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers and other measures to increase economic and military cooperation between the countries.
William Weld, a former Republican governor of Massachusetts, and Pedro Aspe, former finance minister of Mexico, were the other co-chairmen of the task force, comprised of over 20 experts from government, business and academia.
Manley contrasted the scrutiny of goods flowing between Canada and the United States with a lax attitude to imports arriving at shipping ports.
"As I told my one-time U.S. counterpart (U.S. Homeland Security chief) Tom Ridge once, 'You inspect a grain car entering the U.S. from Saskatchewan closer than you do container traffic coming into the United States from the Middle East.' And I think that's still the case."
Other recommendations included improving labor mobility, developing an energy strategy with greater emphasis on reducing harmful emissions and establishing an investment fund to build infrastructure to connect Mexico's poorer regions in the South to the market of the North.
Thanks for the bump. With your help, this thread about the Quislings who want to destroy American sovereignty will go on and on and on, and will be read by thousands of impressionable lurkers.
President Fox would love to have free movement of the "people" - No Thanks
People = Mexican poor and unwanted
I have no words to express the vehemence of my opposition to such a ludicrous notion.
BTW, what exactly is it the Senate Foreign Relations Committee doing on this perimeter security?
I listened this far:
"...police their borders together to help border trade, allow easier movement of citizens and..."
I can easily guess which "citizens" will acquire easier movement (across either of two borders).
Needs no further discussion.
William Weld. Long-time, well-known RINO extraordinaire.
The latest in a long line of Weld infamies.
We cannot depend on our Northern neighbor for OUR security, nor can we likewise depend upon the Southern neighbor. To depend upon them would be to place the security of these United States beyond the direct control of the government sworn to protect her citizens.
I'm never going to agree to that. Washington, do your duty.
Quisling: a synonym for traitor, someone who collaborates with the invaders of his country.
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
yep..... watch canada closely
There wouldn't be any illegals with this. This is the biggest bunch of bull I've ever heard. Talk about the Fox guarding the chicken house. Manley is a Socialist isn't he?
Yes, that is the idea. You have grasped the essential fact. If you think our border control today is pathetic, just wait until our leaders (sic) are able to blame tens of millions of new illegal immigrants on Mexico and Canada.
I'm never going to agree to that. Washington, do your duty.
I don't think they are hearing you.
The funny thing about it is, this was not a thread about illegals. It was about perimeter security. But someone turned it into an illegal thread.
Perimeter security IS about illegals. There is absolutely nothing for me to gain from illegals being here in my neighborhood. It is a total loss for me. They bring crime, disease, and panhandling.
I welcome all LEGAL aliens that wish for the American Dream and are willing to go through the steps to become law abiding citizens.
As for those that support ILLEGAL aliens, there must be something in it for them. Votes, cheap labor, welfare, bringing in illegal relatives, to name a few.
Your turn, I asked you first.
Wrong.
It is about "pushing out the borders".
So what's in it for you? LOL!
Oh cripes.
Because I disagree with you, you are compelled to call be OBL or say I support illegals. You and all the rest do this because that is you only argument. I am, you know, adamently against illegal immigration.
As it stands now, there are three options in regard to illegals.
1. Kennedy-McCain
2. Cornyn-Kyl
3. The status quo
I, of course, support Cornyn-Kyl. Where do you stand?
Oh please explain "Cornyn-Kyl" to me.
And you forgot option #4:
ENFORCE THE LAW.
I did not! Nowhere on this thread did I do any such thing. All I did was ask you "What's in it for you?".
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