CFR's Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada [Must Read]

Eagle Forum ^ | NOTE: July 13, 2005 | Phyllis Schlafly

[upchuck]

NOTE: This article was published in July, 2005. However, IMHO, it explains a lot towards why our government refuses to do anything substantial about the illegal alien problem.

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.

Ask your Senators and Representatives which side they are on: the CFR's integrated North American Community or U.S. sovereignty guarded by our own borders.

[Don Joe]

They want a better life, fine. Why not apply legally?

Because they don't have to.

Being "habla espanol" is an automatic jump-to-front-of-line pass, thanks to el Presidente Whorehay Arbusto's fascination with "their culture."

Enjoy what you can of your country while you can. Mene, mene, teckel, etc. These ARE "the good old days." It's all downhill from here.

Clinton thought he was our "first Black President."

The current occupant of the Presidential Palace seems to think he's our first Mexican President.

Surreal...

[Don Joe]

Bears repetition:

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Plus, the US is being told we need to 'invest in rebuilding Mexico's infrastructure'. Mexico has more riches than you can shake a stick at, yet can't be bothered to fix their own country. If this isn't extortion, it's the next best thing. We're a nation of laws, and our own govt. has connived to do a very big end run around them. If you or I tried it, we'd end up in an orange jump suit.

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[beeler]

bttt

[upchuck]

Thanks for the bump. Spread the word.

IMHO, this explains a lot about some of the actions taken by "Washington."

[hedgetrimmer]

Incorporating socialist Canada, and even more socialist Mexico into the US spells disaster for conservatives.

It spells disaster for freedom. Remember the domino theory in South America? We used to try to stop communism there, because we were rightly afraid that the whole hemisphere would go communist. Liberals mocked, but guess what's happening now?

[Wolfie]

Fighting between the parties is smoke and mirrors to keep we the people pointing fingers at the other side as they both work toward the greatest screw job of all time.

Yep. They keep the sheeple distracted with minor social issues, while working toward a common goal that will have us all scratching our heads saying "Wha' Happened?".

[tertiary01]

You can really tell the pols true immigration, so called free trade colors by how they acted to 187. We all know Gray Davis's allegiance, but somehow I think Pete Wilson was also complacent! He could have enacted that initiative if he so desired, while it was being batted around in court. He would have had the citizens on his side.