“* Cancel NAFTA.”
NAFTA and GATT ceded US serenity to a foreign court. I suspect we can’t cancel the treaties without being taken to a foreign court. Cancellation would be a violation of the treaty and our trading partners would then invoke the penalty clauses. This happened when Bush put a tariff on steel so he could get some votes in Pennsylvania. We were taken to court, lost, and our trading partners retaliated by putting tariffs on thousands of US goods, making them unsalable in their markets. It hurt so badly that Bush was forced to cancel the tariff on steel. (This is probably the enforcement mechanism on the UN Arms treaty that would lead to making all private gun sales in the US illegal.)
This is the danger of any treaty, but especially one that uses asymmetric enforcement. We can wiggle and weasel within the terms of the treaty, which is how we ended up with alcohol in gas. We were taken to court and accused of subsidizing farmers. We lost, as we do subsidize. But it was impossible to remove the subsidies so the lawyers went to work and found a national defense loophole, which is how putting alcohol in gas got linked to national defense. (Really, it is, linked I mean. In reality it is as related to national defense as we are related to rocks.)
All good points, but this now is the time for American Border Security to trump all other agreements.
Without heavily armed troops and secure concentration camps to house the children and adults who manage to slip past these armed troops, there will be no other defense but for WE THE PEOPLE to “fix” the problem ourselves.
This is WAR, Gen. Blather, just like Obama and the GOP-E Amnesty Whores have planned it.