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CAFTA undermines immigration laws
North County Times ^
| Sunday, July 17, 2005
| TOM TANCREDO
Posted on 07/17/2005 11:10:40 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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What those provisions mean is that a foreign company would be empowered under CAFTA to challenge the validity of our immigration laws.
In reality, CAFTA is about expanding a growing body of international law that supersedes our own.
Thanks to Congressman Tancredo for the TRUTH about CAFTA.
To: FBD; MACVSOG68; JesseJane; Justanobody; B4Ranch; Nowhere Man; Coleus; neutrino; endthematrix; ...
You all might be interested in this one.
To: hedgetrimmer
CAFTA undermines immigration laws Tell it to the president. As if he didn't already know it.
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posted on
07/17/2005 11:17:08 PM PDT
by
Euro-American Scum
(A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
To: Euro-American Scum
Someone in Congress has some backbone:
U.S. Congress : McHenry disagrees with Bush on CAFTA
BY ANDREW MACKIE, Hickory Daily Record Staff Writer
Saturday, July 16, 2005
HICKORY -- While President Bush stumped for support of the Central America Free Trade Agreement on Friday in Gaston County, a staunch supporter was conspicuously missing.
U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, who grew up and lives in Cherryville, was in Lenoir speaking to laid-off Broyhill Furniture employees.
He declined an invitation to fly on Air Force One and be at the presidents side.
McHenry opposes CAFTA, saying it will do more harm than good for western North Carolina. Its one of the few issues where McHenry disagrees with the president.
To: hedgetrimmer
Thanks for the PING. I've read about this info elsewhere, and it appears to be accurate.
"If CAFTA is approved, Congress' "exclusive" authority to regulate immigration policy will be subjugated to the whim of international tribunals and trade panels ---- in much the same way that Congress' once supreme constitutional authority to "regulate commerce with foreign nations," has already been largely ceded to the WTO."
- This appears to be the reason our immigration laws are not being enforced.
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posted on
07/17/2005 11:19:44 PM PDT
by
FBD
To: FBD
This appears to be the reason our immigration laws are not being enforced.
Precisely the reason.
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To: hedgetrimmer; Marine Inspector; HiJinx; Spiff
This article provides more details:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/osullivan/cst-edt-osul14.html
[snip]
".......Here's a quick quiz for foreign policy buffs: (1) Who was the first
foreign leader George W. Bush journeyed to meet on becoming president?
(2) Which foreign country did Bush visit on his first trip abroad as
president? (3) What was the first major international agreement he
signed?
The answers are (1) President Vicente Fox of Mexico at his ranch in Texas, shortly before visiting (2) Canada where he signed (3) the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA).
These choices were very far from accidental. In those innocent days before 9/11, when geopolitics
was passe and geo-economics all the rage, Bush entered office
believing that his main foreign policy task would be to unite the
Western hemisphere economically and politically in a world of
competing trade blocs.
Under U.S. leadership, the FTAA would gradually develop into an
American version of the European Union resting on free trade, free
capital movement and market-friendly capitalist reforms hroughout the Americas.
In return, the United States would pay what seemed a small price -- making immigration from Latin America much easier, legalizing
the mainly Mexican "illegals" already here." {SNIP}
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posted on
07/17/2005 11:34:42 PM PDT
by
FBD
To: FBD
Read that again:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/osullivan/cst-edt-osul14.html
"These choices were very far from accidental. In those innocent days before 9/11, when geopolitics was passe and geo-economics all the rage, Bush entered office believing that his main foreign policy task would be to unite the western hemisphere economically and politically in a world of competing trade blocs.
Under U.S. leadership, the FTAA would gradually develop into an American version of the European Union resting on free trade, free capital movement and market-friendly capitalist reforms hroughout the Americas.
In return, the United States would pay what seemed a small price -- making immigration from Latin America much easier, legalizing the mainly Mexican "illegals" already here."
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posted on
07/17/2005 11:38:50 PM PDT
by
FBD
To: hedgetrimmer
So I assume the selling out of our country by our govt. is almost complete?
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posted on
07/17/2005 11:41:12 PM PDT
by
Mr. Keys
To: hedgetrimmer
This definition would give people in Central American nations a de facto right to work in the United States. Just what America DOESN'T need. Don't we already have about 20 million slave laborers here?
Wait until the CFR gets into the act! Will any American have a job? Who will pay the bills when the takers outnumber the givers?
To: Mr. Keys
Unless we the people act, it probably is.
For starters, in spite of the poetic waxing of the main stream media, the CAFTA is not a done deal. If we can stop it, it may give us time to work on all these other issues. What I mean is, we must stop it or we won't be a recognizable people anymore, just a homeland in a trading bloc.
If you think Mexico has destabilized this country, just wait til the El Salvadoran MS-13 gangs get a free pass to the US because they're in a CAFTA country.
To: hedgetrimmer
The problem I have with an issue like this is: my reps in Congress will probably vote for it. Then what do I do? Vote for anybody who challenges them in the primary (and their chances of beating an incumbent are small)? Or just suck it up, because my reps are pretty good on most other issues? Or should I just pick absolutely the single most important issue to me and vote strictly based on that? I don't like the idea of being a single issue voter, but I feel like I'm getting cornered.
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posted on
07/18/2005 12:01:53 AM PDT
by
mumps
To: gubamyster
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posted on
07/18/2005 12:04:42 AM PDT
by
rmlew
(Copperheads and Peaceniks beware! Sedition is a crime.)
To: hedgetrimmer
I think the American people are politicaly powerless to change anything. We have a govt. that no longer puts the country first. Where have the real American leaders gone? I see dark days ahead.
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posted on
07/18/2005 12:14:10 AM PDT
by
Mr. Keys
To: mumps
We must become more politically savy than we are right now.
It isn't a matter of the voting booth anymore, but actually going out and talking face to face with your representative.
Now that might not be possible while they are in session, and the CAFTA vote will happen before they leave, but take a group of people with you who agree, and go to the office of your representative and tell them all the things that make CAFTA an attack on our sovereignty. Leave a letter with them to be put in the public record of your view. Remind them that immigration is the key issue here and now, don't let them think you don't know what CAFTA will do to the number of people entering this country.
Tell your neighbors. Have an informational coffee in your home, or meet them at a local restaurant. Just sit down and talk to them. You'd be suprised at how little most Americans know about this. They will help by writing letters to Congress, to newspapers and visiting your representatives. Your Reps will respond to pressure, we just have to start pressing them.
To: Mr. Keys
I think the American people are politicaly powerless to change anything
No they are not. Politicians can be impeached or recalled. California did it, all 50 states can do it.Congress can do it.
Americans must start requiring honest patriotic government and get people out who won't support our Constitution. This means public employees who undermine our laws by not enforcing borders or who preach sedition on the taxpayer dime. It can be done, but the question is, where is the fabled American grit and determination?
We can demand that no more treaties be signed, we can leave the WTO anytime, so the "free traders" tell us. Citizens can recreate civil defense units and patrol the borders or help identify employers hiring illegals and then make their public officials do the lawful and right thing by enforcing the laws that prohibit the hiring of illegals. There's plenty to do, where's the will to do it?
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posted on
07/18/2005 12:25:59 AM PDT
by
nw_arizona_granny
(http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp Meet YOUR Communist party members in Congress)
To: hedgetrimmer
Looks to me that it's about time for "We the People" to take control of our country before the sellout is finalized.
We all know of the level headed, thinking people with common sense who see where we are going. Perhaps we should start openly supporting them and tell the world we are NOT for sale!
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posted on
07/18/2005 12:27:38 AM PDT
by
AnimalLover
( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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