Posted on 05/21/2006 10:47:45 PM PDT by Plutarch
Reformist Mexican President Vincente Fox raises eyebrows with his suggestion that over a decade or two Nafta should evolve into something like the European Union, with open borders for not only goods and investment but also people. He can rest assured that there is one voice north of the Rio Grande that supports his vision. To wit, this newspaper.
Indeed, during the immigration debate of 1984 we suggested an ultimate goal to guide passing policies -- a constitutional amendment: "There shall be open borders."
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Today the GOP is led by George W. Bush, who told campaign audiences "family values do not stop at the Rio Grande." The employer sanctions in the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill are now recognized as windmill tilting.
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Another amnesty for undocumented aliens is already in the air; every decade or so Congress somehow or another faces this reality. Even opening Nafta borders completely, I would dare to suggest, might not unleash a new flood of immigrants. There is a limit to the number who actually want to come, and experience suggests that many of those who do already can find a way. And after all, we did have a long history of unlimited quotas for Western Hemisphere immigrants, ending only in 1965.
President Fox is nothing if not a visionary. Many scoffed at his ambition to unseat the machine that had run Mexico for generations; now they scoff at his proposals on immigration. But over the decade or two he mentioned, a Nafta with open borders may yet prove not so wild a dream.
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The entire unexcerpted Open Borders editorial can be viewed here .
Like the Senate, the WSJ sees this country as nothing more than a marketplace.
What are you smoking?
You got it dead on. Any notion of a world government is pure socialism. This country tried socialism in the early colonies. It failed as those able to work did not. Those who think that free market capitalism does not work, only need to move to Canada or Europe. I am no prospect to pay the high taxes these countries have to support those who do little, if anything. The League of Nations was a failure and so is the UN. I am beginning to wonder what our schools and universities are teaching? It certainly is not pro American.
QFE!
Amen Brother.
Glad you posted the 1965 Immigration Act. It was perhaps the biggest lie ever pulled on Americans. Could this be when Ted K set up his off shore accounts?
Even Israel????
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