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It has nothing to do with border inspections. You are saying that a person in this country can import infected produce into this country because free trade enables that person to give lower prices to the consumer if he does so.

This also means that stopping his produce at the border, or turning it away means he is unable to conduct trade freely, so border inspections cannot be allowed in a free trade environment. So to understand your question, not only should businesses that deal in labor be able to move freely from labor market to labor market because they can get labor at a lower price elsewhere, a produce importer should be able to go to whatever market he can and bring in whatever quality produce he wants because he can get it cheaper elsewhere. Its all about the cost of goods and services, correct? This is the meaning of free trade in your view?

BTW, border inspections for labor cannot be allowed in a free trade environment. That means that mexican laborers under a "free trade" environment cannot be stopped at a border, turned away or deported for entering the country. This also falls under the pervue of "free trade" in labor markets. It is the basis for the president's amnesty program and the subject of his meeting with Vicente Fox last weekend.

In a "free trade" environment you can't stop anybody selling labor at the border because in a free trade environment that person has a right to sell his labor to a willing buyer, right?

In this sort of environment where labor can move freely from country to country, what happens to the US Constitution? It does not hold when there are no borders, no citizens, and only business interests, laborers and consumers.

And is it free trade when a taxpayer is forced to pay housing and medical costs for noncitizens who come into the country as part of a "free trade" labor force? The people who wrote the FTAA believe this.