Bush faces issues with Canada and Mexico at summit

Sign on San Diego ^ | March 29, 2006 | George E. Condon Jr. and S. Lynne Walker

[hedgetrimmer]

Well the cat's out so to speak.

Planning to retire to his ranch in central Mexico in December, Fox has one eye on his legacy and would love to sign off with a victory on immigration.

"It'll mean a lot for him personally," said Andres Rozental, a former adviser to the Fox government on foreign policy.

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Bush reminded Americans on Monday that immigration had forged their country.

"No one should pretend that immigrants are a threat to American identity, because immigrants have shaped America's identity," he said.

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Many in Mexico underestimate the concern in the United States about border security after the September 11 attacks, said Gordon Hanson of the University of California, San Diego.

"The U.S. does not understand the sensitivities that Mexico has about the immigration issue and Mexico does not understand the paranoia that the United States has about the immigration issue," he said.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060328/pl_nm/bush_mexico_dc_1

Americans are threatened and paranoid. We don't understand Mexico's sensitivity on immigration.

[California Patriot]

Yeah. There's one promise I think we can believe!

[cripplecreek]

I can't find the exact quote but I remember reading about it. A couple of years ago at an economic summit in Canada, Fox was asked by a reporter about his feelings regarding the protesters outside. Basically he said 'Sometimes the people don't know what's good for them, so it's up to the leaders to do the right thing for the people.'

[hedgetrimmer]

``The recent demonstrations in different places in the United States show the imminent need for an immigration accord that meets the interests of both countries,''
--Mexican presidential spokesman Rubén Aguilar, at the trilateral summit in Cancun, Mexico March 29, 2006.

[hedgetrimmer]

Sounds like he was quoting Hillary Clintons book of soundbites.

[Wallace T.]

If a supranational government of Canada, Mexico, and the United States is established by treaty, resulting in the compromise or surrender of national sovereignty, there will be no reason to be loyal to the Federal government. The so-called social contract between the rulers and the governed established through the Constitution of 1788 will have been breached. There will be no moral obligation to obey the laws of the United States or of the states and localities, and certainly not any future North American Union.

Society will function either by voluntary cooperation or by brute force. Before the President and Congress consent to subsume American sovereignty, they need to think about how they will retain control of our society without the consent and cooperation of the governed.

[Stellar Dendrite]

"The North American Union must be created at any cost!"

you mean this?


http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2005/july05/05-07-13.html
CFR's Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada
by Phyllis Schlafly

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Bush faces issues with Canada and Mexico at summit

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The ONLY thing President Bush needs to say is
"Get ready for the deportation of those who
entered the USA illegally."

End of "summit!"

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ANY Politician who condones this
by lack of enforcing the law,
or censoring those who ignore
the law, is just as guilty as
treason as the persons
responsible of this disgrace
to the men and women who have
given their lives defending our flag!

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03/28 : Student protest

Whittier area students from Pioneer, California
and Whittier high schools walked out of classes
to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006.

The protestors put up the Mexican flag
over the American flag flying upsidedown at Montebello High.

(Leo Jarzomb/Staff photo)

http://lang.whittierdailynews.com/socal/gallery2/news/032806_SV_walk1/3.jpg

http://lang.whittierdailynews.com/socal/gallery2/news/032806_SV_walk4/3.jpg

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This is what President Bush said on March 25, 2006

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060325.html

"To keep the promise of America, we must enforce the laws of America."

[hedgetrimmer]

The ONLY thing President Bush needs to say is
"Get ready for the deportation of those who
entered the USA illegally."

End of "summit!"

***
Freepers, start your faxes!

[antisocial]

Good article hedge, thanks for the ping.

I didn't notice anything about trying to get Mexico to clean up it's corruption. No agreement can be meaningful with a country as thoroughly corrupt as Mexico.

[hedgetrimmer]

They're down in Mexico giving away the store, it appears.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Lauds Mexico for Strong Macroeconomic Policies
they pledged to work with other nations in the region to build an "Infrastructure Facility of the Americas," a rating system for project proposals that could "help unlock large flows of private finance for infrastructure by improving investor information," according to a joint statement issued by the two governments.

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

Freepers, start your faxes!

Who are you going to fax that gives a crap? The Whitehouse? Your congressman? Don't waste your time.

[Colorado Buckeye]

NWO bump. May it suffer a painful and ugly death.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[hedgetrimmer]

Don't waste your time.

Thank goodness the spirit of the American Revolution still lives!

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

Don't waste your time.

Thank goodness the spirit of the American Revolution still lives!

It's not that. Do you think your congressman actually reads faxes and letters? No way. I'm just saying it's time for something with a little more bite if you really want their attention. I believe we are at a fork in the road and the normal methods for change will definitely take us down the path that destroys the country.

[hedgetrimmer]

The pressure groups get 4 or 5 people together to go to visit their representatives at their office. If you can get some registered voters together, they'll listen. In fact we need someone here to organize this for every state.

[GOP_1900AD]

Now that you've mentioned it, I've often wondered about a different sort of merger, namely, the Western Canadian provinces in with the US. Maybe we could give away a few of the most hopeless blue states in the deal? LOL ....

But in all seriousness, the windmill tilting notion that anything but organic geopolitical shifts would alter borders is so infantile that even I, at my jaded and cynical worst, find it hard to believe that grown and reputedly worldly men and women consider it to be a serious goal. The nation state is still a relatively young thing and is no where near obsolescence. We are going to find that out soon. Other nation states, who do not suffer from the chimera that apparently aflicts a number of our so called leaders, are going to remind us of the nation state concept in a rather painful way.

How can one look at what is happening today and fail to see how poorly we've learned the lessons of past utopian mistakes? (e.g. most recently, 1919 - 1931 and 1871 - 1914).

[hedgetrimmer]

The nation state is still a relatively young thing and is no where near obsolescence.

Absolutely correct.