Posted on 11/05/2006 11:11:55 PM PST by CrawDaddyCA
There have been conferences, academic papers, mock student parliaments and secret meetings on a confederation of the U.S., Canada and Mexico into future North American Union, but, until now, few officials of any of the three countries have publicly called for the creation of a European Union-style merger.
In a panel discussion on U.S.-Mexico relations last Tuesday at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Enrique Berruga, Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations, came right out and said a North American Union is needed – and even provided a deadline.
Berruga said the merger must be complete in the next eight years before the U.S. baby boomer retirement wave hits full force.
The discussion of was organized by the UTSA Mexico Center and the San Antonio campus of Mexico's National Autonomous University.
Noting that both countries depend on each other economically, Berruga urged leaders to put petty politics aside for the region's benefit. He said the U.S. should abandon plans to build border fences and instead "invest" more in Mexico so the country can do a better job standing on its own.
"We will be together forever and we need to make the best out of it," Berruga said, as reported in the San Antonio Express News.
Another panelist, economist Mauricio Gonzalez, who works for the North American Development Bank, created as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, explained that illegal immigration was actually good for the U.S. economy. While it's true, the said, that the immigrants bring down wages in the U.S., it is only by about 2 percent. In addition, he cited studies showing illegal immigrants do not drain U.S. social services.
"NAFTA was a very important first step, but we need to start thinking outside the NAFTA box," Gonzalez said.
Panelist Robert Rivard, editor of the Express-News and a former Newsweek correspondent in Latin America, spoke of the lingering impact of 9-6 – that is, Sept. 6, 2001, five days before the terrorist attacks, when the U.S. and Mexican governments were on the brink of a far-reaching immigration deal. In the wake of the terrorist attacks five days later, there was little chance Americans would accept more open borders and pardons for illegal aliens already in the country.
"People of peace can't build walls between each other," Rivard said of the move to build the border fence. "It's a wall meant to corral Republican voters, not to keep out Mexican workers," he added.
And here's what it's all about, boys and girls...another parasitic country wanting the fruits of OUR labors.
Ping.
Yep.
and their own people who they should be helping to begin with. The hispanics I do know are honest hard working individuals, Mexico is second in the world for natural resources but they allow a state run oil campaign. You have to remember that many Latino countries are very much into a class system, and all it does is create corruption in order for the upper class to make money.
I'm all in favor of a North American Union so long as we leave out Quebec and Mexico.
In other words, we can do this the slow way or the fast way, but either way we're moving in.
this is what the bush border policy is about -- as well as that big highway system they want to foist on the USA that will do nothing but bring in more illegals.
ping
The US is an economic powerhouse, Mexico should invest their money in the US not the other way around.
They do, that's part of the problem. The people with money in Mexico don't reinvest their profits in Mexico, too risky. They invest it in the US.
Building the fence, which I support, stops the Mexican elite from having a pressure valve for the economically disadvantaged. If the rich Mexicans reinvested their money in Mexico, they would keep more jobs in Mexico and fewer problems on our borders.
Close the border, put up the damn fence and round up ALL illegals and deport their asses.
We cannot form a union. Our government is based on different principles. I, for one, am not willing to give up my God- given rights, Constitutional protections against government infringement upon those rights, or Judicial heritage of English Common Law.
Why would they? Mexican corruption offers nothing. Your point was the corporate elite sell for NAFTA; that if there is investment in Mexico then that will "level the playing field." Both Clinton and Bush used that one. Well, companies moved from the US to Mexico with the jobs - but the border is still unsecured. Then the US company in Mexico found greener pastures (lower wages) in China, and packed up and shipped out. Now it's Vietnam's turn. But to our advantage Asians can't just walk here.
They must be insane. They'll just drag us down with them.
Pretty much my sentiments but if you've been reading lately it sounds like our leaders may be trying to sell us down the socialist river.
The country has never been able to stand on its own and will never be able to stand on its own until the corrupt leaders are pushed put of office and people are able to partake of a true capitalistic society. Wha t mexican leaders want is to hold on to their own wealth while raping our society.
"What mexican leaders want is to hold on to their own wealth while raping our society."
Bingo!! The Mexican aristocracy is trying to buy off our leadership to save their butts......
So I guess Jeb Bush will run after all. Maybe do a Ross Perot "If the Republicans want me" kind of thing.
"So I guess Jeb Bush will run after all. Maybe do a Ross Perot "If the Republicans want me" kind of thing."
I've done some searching and can find NO where any indication that Jeb's wife and her family came here legally. And I believe that the President's housekeeper also came here illegally.
And in that search, I found these quotes by Jeb's son:
“‘This is a President who represents the diversity of our society, who we can count on to change the Republican Party to represent our views.’" … He told the rally his mother had instilled him the values of Cesar Chavez, the Chicano activist who fought for the rights of migrant farmworkers in the United States. ‘She told me we have to fight for our race, we have to find the leaders who represent us,’ he said in fluent Spanish.’
"Our biggest challenge will be to separate my uncle from the rest of the Republican Party."
With this photo:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/865000/images/_865697_10_300.jpg
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