Posted on 12/07/2005 9:09:54 AM PST by Irontank
Good analogy.
"Conservatives need to tell the White House: No deal, no amnesty, do your duty, defend the border, or we will find men and women to replace you who will enforce our laws and protect our country."
Absolutely. And may even arm the minutemen with rifles...
He won't protect what he plans to erase.
He's got a Socialist Community of North America to build whether we like it or not.
Don't worry, you don't get to vote but you do get to pay for it all.
Buchanan's motives may be less than pure, but this is about the first thing he's written in the past four or five years that I fully agree with.
If there's a shortage of manual workers, we need to fix our whole system. Just to take California as an example, why do we need to bring in millions of illegal workers at the same time that we need to pay welfare to millions of idle men who can't find work, but lounge around the cities selling or taking drugs and getting into mischief?
As an article posted here the other day urged, these are not deadend jobs. These are jobs that people can do while finding their way to other careers and professions. These are jobs that can train people in the habit of working and the satisfactions of supporting yourself. By giving them to illegal aliens, we are actually depriving our own citizens of the bottom rungs of a ladder they might otherwise climb.
I do plenty of manual work around the place and don't find it beneath my dignity. My children have taken menial jobs to help support themselves.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag about what's really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries. A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter."
"Community" means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
"Community" is sometimes called "space" but the CFR goal is clear: "a common economic space ... for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital, and people flow freely." The CFR's "integrated" strategy calls for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people."
The CFR document lays "the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America." The "common security perimeter" will require us to "harmonize visa and asylum regulations" with Mexico and Canada, "harmonize entry screening," and "fully share data about the exit and entry of foreign nationals."
This CFR document, called "Building a North American Community," asserts that George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and assigned "working groups" to fill in the details.
It was at this same meeting, grandly called the North American summit, that President Bush pinned the epithet "vigilantes" on the volunteers guarding our border in Arizona.
A follow-up meeting was held in Ottawa on June 27, where the U.S. representative, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, told a news conference that "we want to facilitate the flow of traffic across our borders." The White House issued a statement that the Ottawa report "represents an important first step in achieving the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership."
The CFR document calls for creating a "North American preference" so that employers can recruit low-paid workers from anywhere in North America. No longer will illegal aliens have to be smuggled across the border; employers can openly recruit foreigners willing to work for a fraction of U.S. wages.
Just to make sure that bringing cheap labor from Mexico is an essential part of the plan, the CFR document calls for "a seamless North American market" and for "the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico."
The document's frequent references to "security" are just a cover for the real objectives. The document's "security cooperation" includes the registration of ballistics and explosives, while Canada specifically refused to cooperate with our Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
To no one's surprise, the CFR plan calls for massive U.S. foreign aid to the other countries. The burden on the U.S. taxpayers will include so-called "multilateral development" from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, "long-term loans in pesos," and a North American Investment Fund to send U.S. private capital to Mexico.
The experience of the European Union and the World Trade Organization makes it clear that a common market requires a court system, so the CFR document calls for "a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution." Get ready for decisions from non-American judges who make up their rules ad hoc and probably hate the United States anyway.
The CFR document calls for allowing Mexican trucks "unlimited access" to the United States, including the hauling of local loads between U.S. cities. The CFR document calls for adopting a "tested once" principle for pharmaceuticals, by which a product tested in Mexico will automatically be considered to have met U.S. standards.
The CFR document demands that we implement "the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico." That's code language for putting illegal aliens into the U.S. Social Security system, which is bound to bankrupt the system.
Here's another handout included in the plan. U.S. taxpayers are supposed to create a major fund to finance 60,000 Mexican students to study in U.S. colleges.
To ensure that the U.S. government carries out this plan so that it is "achievable" within five years, the CFR calls for supervision by a North American Advisory Council of "eminent persons from outside government . . . along the lines of the Bilderberg" conferences.
The best known Americans who participated in the CFR Task Force that wrote this document are former Massachusetts Governor William Weld and Bill Clinton's immigration chief Doris Meissner. Another participant, American University Professor Robert Pastor, presented the CFR plan at a friendly hearing of Senator Richard Lugar's Foreign Relations Committee on June 9.
Ask your Senators and Representatives which side they are on: the CFR's integrated North American Community or U.S. sovereignty guarded by our own borders.
Viva El Presidente Jorge (Rockefeller Republican) Arbusto.
As much as it pains me to say so, I think Mr. Buchanan is spot on.
However, there are many Moderates and Liberals who are just as fed-up with the invasion of illegals.
And they, as well as the Conservatives will hold the Republicans to account unless something substantial is done quickly.
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Ditto that--I usually find Buchanan too "over the top", but for once, he has it exactly right.
Will not be long before we get tons of people on this thread attacking Buchanan while ignoring his message.
December 6, 2005 -- Republican leaders will try to pass President Bush's controversial guest-worker proposal without putting it to a direct vote in the House.
Observers say the new GOP strategy that begins today is for the House to deal only with the more politically palatable issue of increasing border security and clamping down on employers. Republican leaders then will let the Senate pass some form of a guest-worker plan.
After that vote, senators and House members will merge the House's border security bill with the Senate's legislation in closed-door meetings.
The House will then vote on the final package, which will include some guest-worker provision, according to a GOP aide familiar with the plan, a Colorado lawmaker and other observers.
Sensenbrenner's bill is expected to be voted on within the next two weeks. That allows House members to visit their districts for the Christmas break and say that they passed immigration reform, Tancredo and Jacoby said.
"The president's made it clear he wants both (border security and a guest-worker program)," Norquist said.
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This plan was part of NAFTA, spelled out in black and white, that no one bothered to read.
I read the 43 page Congressional summary of NAFA and sit was clearly spelled out in it. I protested to my congress critter and was told that it was just wishfull thinking and that it was only a trade agreement and nothing to worry about.
I don't know if he was lying or just stupid and he called himself a conservative. His replacement, since he retired, isn't any better and is kissing Bush's backside on the imigration and guest worker program.
Great article, but Buchanan is really pissing in the wind on this one. He's making the case for protecting our borders to a President -- and an entire political and economic system -- that doesn't even know what a sovereign nation is.
...I don't know if he was lying or just stupid...
It's usually both.
At which point he proceeded to sign the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which included the same amnesty provisions for illegal aliens that Buchanan is opposing here in this article.
What the Amnesty Program was introduced for:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1530000/posts
Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking, and Organized Crime
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1529927/posts
CIS - Canada: The Organized Crime Marketplace in Canada
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1472612/posts
Sex Tourism: Addressing the Demand for Trafficking
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