"Trusted Travelers On Their Way To America
Posted on 06/28/2005 12:48:41 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
North American Plan Aims to Ease Cross-Border Movement, Enhance Security By Howard Williams CNSNews.com Correspondent June 28, 2005
Ottawa (CNSNews.com) -- The United States, Canada and Mexico agreed Monday on ways to help speed up the movement of people and goods between them, including a plan to identify and facilitate the movement of "trusted" travelers moving between the three.
Ministers responsible for homeland security and commerce from the three countries met in Ottawa for a one-day meeting to follow up on the March summit in Waco, Texas between President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.
At that meeting, the three leaders launched what they called the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America."
Monday's ministerial meeting in Canada was the first to put some meat on the plan.
Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, who also holds the public safety portfolio, hailed the meeting as a successful first step toward increasing the flow of goods and people and tightening security.
The ministers are due to meet every six months from now to update and improve the cooperation.
"Keeping North America safe and secure means taking steps to protect North America from external threats, preventing and responding to threats within North America and further streamlining the secure movement of low-risk traffic across our shared borders," McLellan told a joint press conference with her U.S. and Mexican counterparts.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff added: "We are building upon the strong relationships between our countries to further our common security goals and achieve transformational improvements.
"Security and prosperity must go hand in hand," said Chertoff.
The ministers hailed a plan that has been developing for some time to speed up cross-border movements of what the Canadians call "North American trusted travelers."
Currently, the U.S. and Canada have two pilot projects for frequent cross-border travelers: NEXUS for airline passengers and FAST for land crossings. The plan is to extend this to maritime passengers (dubbed the SENTRI program) and to have all three "trusted traveler" programs cover all three North American countries.
On the security side, the three governments have also agreed to improve the screening of both individuals and goods entering and leaving North America, and to share real-time information on high-risk individuals and cargo.
Many of the reforms being planned or implemented will be handled through the regulatory process in an effort to avoid the often cumbersome legislative system.
The ministers said they had completed modifying rules of origin covering such goods as household appliances, precious metals and some machinery and equipment parts. This "reduces administrative burdens by making it easier for exporters to qualify for duty-free treatment under NAFTA."
The changes would affect $20 billion of annual trilateral trade, they said in a report.
Still to come is a plan to make it easier for professionals in any of the three countries seeking temporary work permits in any of the others.
Canada's McLellan called the overall program "a huge work plan of over 300 specific concrete measures."
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Canada's McLellan called the overall program "a huge work plan of over 300 specific concrete measures."
Particularly we need to ease the movement of Mexicans BACK TO MEXICO.
(Funny, I didn't get a phone call on this one before it was "agreed" upon.)
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The United States, Canada and Mexico agreed Monday on ways to help speed up the movement of people and goods between them, including a plan to identify and facilitate the movement of "trusted" travelers moving between the three.
More open borders BS from Jorge.
ping
Now that the SCOTUS has ruled that government bureaucrats can use eminent domain to transfer property from individuals to corporate developers, the Amercian Middle Class can be looted and plundered into economic parity with Third World migrant labor.
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There is another thread on FR where the entire police force of the city of Nuevo Laredo was recently fired for corruption and involvement with narco traffickers. It is starting to look like the police were also involved systematically in the mass kidnapping for ransom business.
Trust is something that is earned. In the case of Mexico none is warranted.
Thanks for posting this again, Happy. I saw it yesterday, and promptly lost it...couldn't even remember what the title was! scrolled and scrolled...I'm sure it was here.
I think this is IMPORTANT, and now I'll be able to find it and read the comments, too.
"Trusted Travelers On Their Way To America
#2 - An entire crew at any of these companies hiring illegal aliens can be completely replaced in less than 48 hours.
Result: No stinky toilets and the fine was a joke.
The coffin is nailed tight. It has been lowered into the hole.
It's now about to be shoveled over with North American Community by a bunch of traitors from the two headed serpent.
And nobody will even get to vote on it.
Great picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"The United States, Canada and Mexico agreed Monday on ways to help speed up the movement of people and goods between them, including a plan to identify and facilitate the movement of "trusted" travelers moving between the three."
Were are finished. Bush should really take a good look in the mirror and look at the shallow shadow he has become. I never ever could imagine such a sellout.
We the people are nothing but little pawns to be disposed of at will by our masters in Washington.
Its time for tea party folks.
"Still to come is a plan to make it easier for professionals in any of the three countries seeking temporary work permits in any of the others."
As if selling out our toilet cleaning jobs was not enough?
GWB and his administration has earned my disgust. He argues and fights for freedom abroad while we are becoming modern day serfs here.
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Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?
| Approve | |
| 66.4% |   |
| Disapprove | |
| 24.3% | |
| Undecided/pass | |
| 9.3% | |
I could care less about any poll. I care about what is right. Selling out our country and the middle class to the lowest bidder is not my idea of what any President's actions shoulkd reflect.
You probably don't live in an area with all these invaders like many of us do to see their destructive ways. I do. I am sick of it and where this country going because of it.
Selling out our toilet jobs is bad enough, the article clearly says that they are going to make it easier to import professional jobs now too.
When will you be happy??? When we are all serfs and slaves?
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