If a WMD or "Beslan" type attack is traced back to our open border, our President should be and will be impeached for dereliction of duty in wartime.
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.
A local guy helped w/ logistics on the Israel fence, we (USA) provided much of the technology. At the time he thought we'd be using the basics on our border.
I grew up on a farm with real fences...your pics tick me off... TX MMP application will be submitted shortly.
If a WMD or "Beslan" type attack is traced back to our open border, our President should be and will be impeached for dereliction of duty in wartime.
Why would terrorists want to harm their friends Mexico and Canada?
This photo never ceases to blow my mind. Imagine, take a step forward and you're in Mexico. Take a step back and you're back in the U.S. Until I saw this photo I always thought that our government had marked/guarded our border much better than this.
If so, you are seriously delusional. The NAU will mean the end of the US Constitution.
A simple and effective border fence, as in reply 142, could be built in one year for less than it costs to keep illegal alien felons in prison per year. Cost is not the issue, a simple effective fence would save billions in unpaid hospital costs etc. The issue is political will. Our elites are on board for the "North American Union," and will never build a real fence.
Exactly correct, now the plan of the global elites (Bush family) is laid bare for all to see. The End of the United States of America, it's Constitution and it's citizenry. They want instead a North American state run as an democratic oligarchy, the Mexican model, elites are the masters and the rest of us get to be the serfs. Keep voting GOP for more (much more) of the same.
Translation = Mexicans should be allowed to freely come into the USA and take whatever they want including jobs, social services, government grants, seats in our universities and colleges, and whatever else they feel entitled to. Over my DEAD body!
(Study the example of Kosovo for how an integral province of Serbia accomplished this trick, after decades of massive illegal immigration by Albanians.)
A "region" is only a "region," right? We will be entering a post-Constitutional era, say goodbye to the USA which we have known. That is the subject of my next novel.
bttt
In that case, this entire discussion we are having is moot, because that is not on the table. The NAU will not be adopting our Constitution, Mexico and Canada will not become states run from Washington.
There's a report to flush down a toilet.
Experts Call for Common North America Border
"Experts" = "Globalists"
[[This free movement of all citizens within North America would amount to a merger of the labor markets in the three countries, thus driving down wages and salaries in the US and Canada while raising personal income in Mexico.]]
This would be the biggest wealth redistribution hoax ever perpetrated against it's citizens by it's own government.
Read my prior posts; I am 110% against NAU, NAFTA, the UN and the rest of these treasonous anti-american organizations.
I'm glad to hear it. I only worry that some folks will be sucked in by misleading spin put out by the globalists. We need everyone to understand that the NAU will mean the end of our Republic.
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