...There has to be another reason....
No, Founding Father's reason is the correct one.
Read his links or just read Phyllis Schlafly's summary here.
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2005/july05/05-07-13.html
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag about what's really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries. A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter."
"Community" means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
"Community" is sometimes called "space" but the CFR goal is clear: "a common economic space ... for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital, and people flow freely." The CFR's "integrated" strategy calls for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people."
The CFR document lays "the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America." The "common security perimeter" will require us to "harmonize visa and asylum regulations" with Mexico and Canada, "harmonize entry screening," and "fully share data about the exit and entry of foreign nationals."
This CFR document, called "Building a North American Community ," asserts that George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and assigned "working groups" to fill in the details.
It was at this same meeting, grandly called the North American summit, that President Bush pinned the epithet "vigilantes" on the volunteers guarding our border in Arizona.
A follow-up meeting was held in Ottawa on June 27, where the U.S. representative, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, told a news conference that "we want to facilitate the flow of traffic across our borders." The White House issued a statement that the Ottawa report "represents an important first step in achieving the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership."
The CFR document calls for creating a "North American preference" so that employers can recruit low-paid workers from anywhere in North America. No longer will illegal aliens have to be smuggled across the border; employers can openly recruit foreigners willing to work for a fraction of U.S. wages.
Just to make sure that bringing cheap labor from Mexico is an essential part of the plan, the CFR document calls for "a seamless North American market" and for "the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico."
The document's frequent references to "security" are just a cover for the real objectives. The document's "security cooperation" includes the registration of ballistics and explosives, while Canada specifically refused to cooperate with our Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
To no one's surprise, the CFR plan calls for massive U.S. foreign aid to the other countries. The burden on the U.S. taxpayers will include so-called "multilateral development" from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, "long-term loans in pesos," and a North American Investment Fund to send U.S. private capital to Mexico.
The experience of the European Union and the World Trade Organization makes it clear that a common market requires a court system, so the CFR document calls for "a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution." Get ready for decisions from non-American judges who make up their rules ad hoc and probably hate the United States anyway.
The CFR document calls for allowing Mexican trucks "unlimited access" to the United States, including the hauling of local loads between U.S. cities. The CFR document calls for adopting a "tested once" principle for pharmaceuticals, by which a product tested in Mexico will automatically be considered to have met U.S. standards.
The CFR document demands that we implement "the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico." That's code language for putting illegal aliens into the U.S. Social Security system, which is bound to bankrupt the system.
Here's another handout included in the plan. U.S. taxpayers are supposed to create a major fund to finance 60,000 Mexican students to study in U.S. colleges.
To ensure that the U.S. government carries out this plan so that it is "achievable" within five years, the CFR calls for supervision by a North American Advisory Council of "eminent persons from outside government . . . along the lines of the Bilderberg" conferences.
The best known Americans who participated in the CFR Task Force that wrote this document are former Massachusetts Governor William Weld and Bill Clinton's immigration chief Doris Meissner. Another participant, American University Professor Robert Pastor, presented the CFR plan at a friendly hearing of Senator Richard Lugar's Foreign Relations Committee on June 9.
I read your comments with great interest and a sick feeling in the stomach. I'm always a tiny bit on the skeptical side until enough proof is presented.
I've been avoiding this particular issue because I - well, I just didn't want to believe that Bush is that implicated in this total crap. But facing truth is always better than believing in tooth fairies.
I will read Schlafly's comments - I highly respect and admire her intellect and her philosophy as well as personal integrity.
I just hope enough people, like me, quit hiding their heads in the sand.
Thanks. And, any more links sent my way I will read, save, and pass along when I can.
good find, I think. I liked it better with my head in the sand.
This "North American community" with a "common border" is a bunch of doulble talk. I'm insulted that our own government would even consider it.
When I voted in the presidential elections, this was a non issue. It's a ridiculous notion and if this pans out to be true, we must ALL make it an issue of the UTMOST IMPORTANTANCE come election time.
This explains, in part, why Bush hasn't done more to close the borders and why the minuteman project is so controversial. Here we are still fighting to keep our borders closed to illegal immigration and with this, we face our attempts may be in vein.
Remember who we're trying to keep out of this country, this Christian country. MS-13s, flocks of M.Es comming to harm us, our way of life and to spread islam. Our great country has our gang problems but we dont have rogue militia/banditos.
This is but one more step towards the "new world order". A one world government is on the way folks.
REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!!
whew . . . </rant>
Interesting post. CFR stays really busy! I wonder how much involvement CFR Director of Development, George Soros, has in the North American Community. I'll wait for a few more sources before I believe GW is backing this proposal.
The experience of the European Union and the World Trade Organization makes it clear that a common market requires a court system, so the CFR document calls for "a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution." Get ready for decisions from non-American judges who make up their rules ad hoc and probably hate the United States anyway.
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OH MY acceptable words fail me. I don't even want to know this.