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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.
Travis
How much you wanna bet there are machine gun post and land mines in between those fences between Isreal and Syria??
Of course there are, but we don't need them, just the double fence, and Border Patrols. But the BPs can't do their job with nothing to stop uncontrolled mobs from running in at will all along 2,000 miles, 24/7.
"Sanctuary cities" are one small step from becoming "autonomous regions" which will make their own laws, permit anyone to drive and vote and so on.
Adios, Estados Unidos. Bienvenidos, Aztlan.
We have a large number of Hispanics here in northern Alabama. Its gotten to the point where I'm suspicious of all of them. How I wish I could ask to see their green card and if they don't have one - have them arrested and deported!
I just wish I had a list of the laws which "really count" and the laws I could ignore (wink wink).
You know, if the ICE and the ATF switched agents, every illegal alien in America would be arrested, deported or shot in one month.
Independent, my eye. This is a load of Barbra Streisand.
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Not without one hell of a fight first, it won't.
How true. This reminds me of that FBI office in Arizona that really stepped in it with some stupid "internal" memo that targeted loyal Americans who believe in the Constitution and the Second Amendment. Showed me the new federal mindset -- i.e., the true enemy is all those loyal Americans who keep insisting on their Constitutional rights.
You are so right. Mexico is drooling at the prospect of 'integrating' with the US. The translates into: Spanish everywhere, change of culture, mores, work ethic, customs. We import their poor and hungry. They send even more money south. Oh, and NPR was whining this morning about CAFTA. Poor folk in Honduras and Guatemala complain that agriculture in the US is subsidized by the govt...unfair. Those Central American workers who want to unionize are afraid of losing their jobs. Basically, they're complaining that large companies are making money, while they're not being paid what they want. It's all the US's fault, and Bush, of course.
New World Order, The Third Way, Globalization, One Hemisphere, yada, yada, yada. Notice they don't have an honest discussion about this with the American public. One would think loss of national sovereignty, etc., would be of some interest, if only the complaints of Constitutional scholars.
""Sanctuary cities" are one small step from becoming "autonomous regions" which will make their own laws, permit anyone to drive and vote and so on."
Denver is a "Home Rule" city, and they have actually announced that the United States Constitution and the Colorado Constitution is of no matter to them. It is the city's offical position. Of course, judges outside of Denver have a different opinion.
Yeah, I remember that FBI leaflet which was ginned up in Phoenix.
Oh, wait a minute, they already are.
Maybe I should have put the sarcasm tag on that. If we wanted to absorb those two countries we would have to come up with a new name and a new constitution. Mexicans and Canada would refuse to live under the US flag and constitution.
These corporate communities she is talking about is nothing new. It's an old system in a new wrapper. Lots of Americans used to live in corporate shanties and towns.
You worked for the company and lived in company houses,went to company built schools, shopped at the company store, went to the company doctor and you where paid with company script or money which was only good at their facilities. Pretty neat huh?
Can anyone say indentured servant?
What brought an end to these freedom robbing business shanty towns and enslavement practices was those evil old unions.
It's not new. They've been at it since 1956.
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