This sounds like Bircher B.S. to me. I'm not buying it.
They held meetings about this after the Berlin Wall came down, not immediately, but soon enough. Those meetings at ritzy spas, attended by big business, govt. leaders. One was held in California, maybe Hilton Head Island, NC, too. Anyway, the one in California starts with a 'B'. Clinton went to at least one of those. This is why we had NAFTA and CAFTA shoved down our throats. The War on Terror put a crimp in things, but we can chew gum and tap dance at the same time, so globalization/One hemisphere was and has been pursued full tilt despite the danger of terrorists slipping over the leaky southern border.