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.
Why don't we just adopt Mexican immigration laws?
For example, ten years in prison for sneaking in again after being deported one time.
"The United States, Canada and Mexico should establish a common security perimeter..."
All we have to do is to secure our borders with Mexico in the south and with Canada in the north. Mexico and Canada can take care of their own security; I don't trust them with ours.
Yep, I've said it here before. If Mexico wants unimpeded access to the US, they should fold up their government tomorrow and petition to join the United States. We'd end up with 81 states (where would we put the stars?!?!) and add another hundred million people, but Mexico has the natural resources and workforce to make it worthwhile. The only problem with Mexico is their corrupt government.
As for worries about standard of living, applying US laws to former Mexican teritories would create an economic boom that would last for decades. I mean, the demand for plumbers and electricians alone to bring them up to US standards would practically eliminate unemployment ;-)
Some douche bag non-citizen would call you a racist for even suggesting it.
Are you are going to talk the talk, or walk the walk?
A big part of the problem on this site is that non-citizen visa overstayers and other illegals troll around, posting lies. The last thing they want is to see America defend its borders and its sovereignty.
The U.S. doesn't need the assistance of Mexico or Canada to defend our borders. all we need is a President with the fortitude to do what is right fot the people of the U.S. not the people of Mexico or anyone else.
Mr. Robinson, here is a perfect example of the violent race-baiting and flamewar incitement we have to put up with over and over and over.
This is how it starts, and then we are blamed for getting angry at these flamewar incitement tactics.
Or, you could whine about it.
You are the one who suggested that he should shoot Mexicans.
Would you like me to ping you whenever I see one of the many?
Thanks for the ping.
Good men and women fought and died for over two hundred years to protect our nation. Men and women of nearly every race or color or nationality that you can think of. Probably every one of them, in fact.
Many were new to this country, but knew the significance of being and becoming American and put on the uniform and fought to protect their new home and show their appreciation for the opportunity that this land provides. Many of them died for that opportunity for their family.
None of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, or Marines, however long they were here, shed their blood for some left wing politician to give it all away with a stroke of the pen.
It's up to us now to make sure that the pols don't get away with it or we dishonor all who fought and died to defend it.
It's different when long-time freepers who (should) know better suggest somebody should start shooting Mexicans, as you did, in your attempt to start a flamewar.
Amen. I don't intend to just stand idle, like a cow staring at a passing train, while the "North American Union" is put on the fast track by supra-national elites.
No bad idea goes unvoiced
You are a racist pig.
I bet you have a picture of Hitler over your bed and a swastika tattooed on your butt.
Are you are going to talk the talk, or walk the walk?
Break into my home and let your next of kin judge.
That should have pleased a Open Border Lobbyist like you.
You better watch you step, the FBI might be looking at your reply. It would probably be a good idea to get it deleted.
I see you show up on just about every thread about illegals. I'll ask you again, "What's in it for you?"
Many of these open borders advocates are not American citizens at all, but are visa overstayers and other forms of illegal illegal aliens. I wouldn't worry too much about them in general. They don't share our goal of defending American sovereignty, their goal is to shatter it.
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