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Border issues top agenda at North American officials' meeting
WFRV.COM ^ | 23 FEBRUARY 2007 | AP

Posted on 02/24/2007 8:16:07 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

OTTAWA (AP) -- Senior officials from the United States, Canada and Mexico opened talks Friday to hash out ways to thwart cross-border security threats, cope with a potential bird flu outbreak and boost North American trade.

With growing Mexican and Canadian concerns about U.S. border restrictions imposed since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez were meeting their counterparts from the two countries to consider cooperation on the issues.

Hosted by Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay, the gathering of the two-year-old Security and Prosperity Partnership is expected to result in recommendations for President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon to consider at a summit later this year in Canada.

Neither Rice, MacKay or Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa made any public comment as they entered the talks at the Canadian foreign ministry where a small group of anti-U.S. protesters huddled outside in freezing temperatures.

The officials also were meeting with the North American Competitiveness Council a group of business leaders to hear suggestions on protecting thriving flows of commerce and people that some fear may be crippled by U.S. border restrictions.

With a combined gross domestic product of $15 trillion overwhelmingly from the U.S. the three nations exchange goods and services worth nearly $1 trillion and see about 500 million legal border crossings a year, U.S. statistics indicate.

The value of U.S. exports to Canada over a single bridge the Ambassador linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario is greater than that of U.S. exports to Japan, they show.

Friday's meeting follows Chertoff's announcement Thursday that children will be exempt from new rules requiring travelers to show passports when entering the U.S. at land or sea borders.


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; canada; immigrantlist; mexico; nafta; namerica; northamerica; spp; usa; usna
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1 posted on 02/24/2007 8:16:08 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Senior officials from the United States, Canada and Mexico opened talks Friday to hash out ways to thwart cross-border security threats

By erasing the borders.

2 posted on 02/24/2007 8:28:45 AM PST by Spirochete
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Senior officials from the United States, Canada and Mexico opened talks Friday to hash out ways to thwart cross-border security threats

Why not thwart the border crossings?

3 posted on 02/24/2007 8:46:22 AM PST by Mojave
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Hey no border no problem. Problem solved.


4 posted on 02/24/2007 8:47:52 AM PST by engrpat
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; GMMAC; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; ...
Canada ping.

Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.

5 posted on 02/24/2007 9:06:11 AM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
thwart cross-border security threats

Translation:

Arrest Border Agents and LEOs that attempt to hamper the free flow of economice goods (including funny smokes and similar products) and servants into the US.
6 posted on 02/24/2007 9:11:45 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

[Insert standard FR demagogue comment here]


7 posted on 02/24/2007 9:14:05 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: SandRat; gubamyster

This meeting has a direct correlation with the ills on our border and lack of internal enforcement.


8 posted on 02/24/2007 9:15:34 AM PST by hedgetrimmer (I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


9 posted on 02/24/2007 10:42:57 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: hedgetrimmer; HiJinx; Spiff; Borax Queen; idratherbepainting; AZHSer; Sabertooth; ...

Border PING


10 posted on 02/24/2007 10:54:41 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat; hedgetrimmer; Czar; Smartass; calcowgirl; 1rudeboy

Here we go.

Yesterday,I saw the list of the billion dollar "American Corporations" that are on this competitive council. Guess what else this competive council will get from you silly taxpyers? A Secretariat---Clap,clap,clap,///s.Along with the Secretariat goes secret tribunals behind closed doors. Clap,clap,clap,/s. Don't forget the unelected "ministers" who somehow have to be paid again by taxpayers.////s

How many of you can absolutely say you learned about this socialism in public school?


11 posted on 02/24/2007 11:34:00 AM PST by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: texastoo

You saw a list? I thought they are secret.


12 posted on 02/24/2007 11:35:44 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: texastoo

13 posted on 02/24/2007 11:44:22 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: texastoo

Did ya read this one?

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/kincaid022107.htm


14 posted on 02/24/2007 11:51:01 AM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: 1rudeboy

Try this url. Nothing is too good for free trade. Scroll on down and you will get all the names.


15 posted on 02/24/2007 11:53:00 AM PST by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: 1rudeboy

Try this url. Nothing is too good for free trade. Scroll on down and you will get all the names.

http://www.americas-society.org/coa/NACC/NACC%20Trilateral%20Mtg%208152006.pdf


16 posted on 02/24/2007 11:53:54 AM PST by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: SandRat

A good one!


17 posted on 02/24/2007 11:54:52 AM PST by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: texastoo
I found the names I was looking for almost a year ago, when Corsi, et al., were howling about the membership lists being "secret." I even found photos of the members eating croissants and drinking coffee.
18 posted on 02/24/2007 11:55:42 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: texastoo

First publiche in the British Punch Magazine in, are you ready for this? 1948


19 posted on 02/24/2007 12:00:46 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This nation is inching ever closer to the point where the blood of Freedom will have to be renewed.


20 posted on 02/24/2007 12:05:19 PM PST by Ron H.
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