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Sabotaging U.S. Sovereignty, Security, and Prosperity The problem with the Bush administration is that not enough of its officials have read the U.S. Constitution. Take, for example, Section 2 of Article 2. When dealing with foreign nations, it says that the President "shall have the power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur…." So, why is President Bush and his administration seeking to establish a North American Union that would, in effect, abolish the borders between ourselves, Canada, and Mexico? Moreover, it would involve our government in so many common regulatory mandates with these two nations as to render the sovereignty of the United States a memory of what national self-governance is supposed to be. The name of this effort is called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) and, guess what, it has not been submitted to the Senate for its oversight or concurrence because, by some magic of governmental definition, it is not a treaty. Instead, its administration is buried in the bowels of the Commerce Department.
It is an attack on American sovereignty. In the smoothest and most soothing writing you will find anywhere, the website spells out the wonders of SPP. They include the North American Competitiveness Council, the North American Energy Security Initiative, the North American Emergency Management plan, and plans for "smart, secure borders." And right now there are "working groups" whose purpose is to "improve productivity, reduce the costs of trade, and enhance the quality of life." And if you like snake oil, permit SPP to sell it to you by the barrel, but the boxcar, and by the tanker. The SPP didn’t start out as an idea the presidents of the three nations started kicking around on March 23, 2005 in Waco, Texas, but it became the official policy of the United States at a special summit convened by President Bush and joined by then Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. Like so many really bad foreign policy concepts, SPP owes its origins to the Council on Foreign Relations; in this case, CFR’s Task Force on North America. Its report, "Building a North American Community" envisions the elimination of U.S. borders in just five years. Like termites eating away at the sovereignty of the United States of America, this grandiose scheme is a major threat to American security and prosperity. The Marxist majordomo of this task force is Professor Robert Pastor who told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee "The best way to secure the United States today is not at our two borders with Mexico and Canada but at the borders of North America as a whole." Oh, yeah???? This surely explains why Mexico is doing such a great job of stopping the drug smugglers or the one million Mexicans who each year consider the U.S. border a mere fiction in their pursuit of jobs President Bush keeps telling us Americans won’t take. It took a couple of years after 9/11 for Canada to discover it had some fanatical Muslims in its midst who were plotting terrible things against it and the U.S. Yes, these are surely the nations in which we want to place the responsibility for America’s security. Who needs borders when you have friends like these? A North American Union promises not only security, says SPP, but prosperity too. Without SPP, however, the three nations already do more than $800 billion in trilateral trade. Surely the U.S. needs Mexico’s help to improve our economy? As the economist, Robert J. Samuelson, noted in a June column, "The subtext for the United States immigration debate is Mexico. Why doesn’t its economy grow faster, creating more jobs and higher living standards?" The answer to that has something to do with the endemic corruption that infests all levels of Mexico’s governmental and business sectors. Something is very wrong when Mexico’s economy must literally depend on the billions its illegal aliens send home from the U.S. In 2002, the then-Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castanega explained to the local press that destroying the border involved "the metaphor of Gulliver, of ensnarling the giant. Tying it up, with nails, with thread, with 20,000 nets that bog it down: these nets being norms, principles, resolutions, agreements, and bilateral, regional and international covenants." Bush43 is carrying out Bush41’s daft and dangerous "new world order" and his indifference to America’s illegal immigration crisis is symptomatic of the SPP objectives. On June 15, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Mexican Economy Minister Sergio Garcia de Alba, and Canadian Minister of Industry Maxime Bernier joined North American business leaders to launch the North American Competitiveness Council. The objective is the promotion of "regional competitiveness in the global community." As if the floundering economies of the member nations of the European Union were not warning enough, it is proposed that the United States enter into a similar union. A lot of corporations with global interests like this idea. Among those sponsoring the North American Union are FedEx Corporation, Mittal Steel USA, General Motors Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Campbell’s Soup Company, Gillette Inc., Merck & Company, and Wal-Mart Stores. Since the United States is already a signatory to NAFTA and CAFTA, why is SPP necessary? Just how many treaties, agreements and protocols are necessary to promote trade and economic growth? Just how many nets and norms, traps and snares, will ultimately undermine U.S. prosperity, drive down the wages of America’s middle class, and improve the ability of the Mexican drug cartels to deliver their goods? Like termites eating away at the sovereignty of the United States of America, this grandiose scheme, hatched in some darkened cavern of the Council on Foreign Affairs, is a major threat to American security and prosperity. It was been introduced by fiat, by executive action, by a "summit" of the three nation’s leaders, and the time is long overdue for the Senate to demand to exercise its Constitutional responsibility and right to determine if it wishes to give its consent to yet another "entangling alliance." Enjoy these weekly commentaries? You can have the best of them from 2003 to 2005 when you purchase Alan Caruba’s newly published "Right Answers." To learn more, click here for an autographed copy! Until the problem gets fixed politicians should be asked over and over again, "What are you going to do about the border with Mexico?" As I tell anyone who will listen, with the exception of the Islamic revolution threatening Western civilization in general and the United States in particular, there is no other issue of greater importance than how we address the immigration crisis. There is no other word for a situation in which a million Mexicans and "other than Mexicans" illegally cross our southern border every year. It is a crisis and it is magnified by the vast financial burdens imposed on native and naturalized American citizens, not only by this invasion, but also by the ten to twelve million illegal aliens already living among us. They need to go home. Leading the fight to deal with this crisis has been Tom Tancredo who represents Colorado’s Sixth District in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the House, he serves on the International Relations Committee, the Resources Committee, and is the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus. Tancredo has just had published In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America’s Border and Security ($24.95, WND Books.) You won’t have to read a scary novel this summer. This book, based on the facts of what the Mexican invasion represents, is frightening for the implications of what will occur if the issue is not addressed, if the border is not secured. The enemy, as Tancredo identifies it, is multiculturalism. It’s all the fuzzy, feel-good stuff about how all cultures are equal and why we should never say or do anything to offend a culture or nation, even if it threatens to annihilate us. "We are committing cultural suicide," says Tancredo. "Worse, by the time many of us recognize it, our country may itself be so weakened by these destructive influences that the barbarians at the gate will only need to give a slight push, and the emaciated body of Western civilization will collapse in a heap." Too dramatic? It happened to the empire of Rome. It happened to Chinese dynasties. It happened to the Ottoman Empire. It has happened throughout history to successive empires that were so busy basking in their own opulence that they failed to post the sentries. Our sentries, the Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration and Customs service are failing us. Most empires and nations commit a kind of suicide. In the initial chapters of his book, Tancredo addresses the primary enemy of Western civilization, at one point citing a speech given by a young Winston Churchill in 1899 in which he said, "No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith." Nothing has changed about Islam, except that now it is employing asymmetrical warfare, killing civilians everywhere to achieve its goal of a global caliphate. It is, however, our nation’s porous borders and the failure to address the threat of out-of-control illegal immigration that is our most immediate threat. As Tancredo notes, "Mass migration is the sole reason the U.S. population is nearing 300 million people." Most of it is illegal and those granted amnesty in 1986 tripled the population of new Americans by bringing their families here and by their higher birth rates. This is not about denigrating Hispanics. Naturalized Hispanic citizens are welcome and it should be noted that they are among those most opposed to the flow of illegal Hispanics coming across the border. Illegal Hispanics have marched in the streets of American cities saying they had a right to be here! They waved the Mexican flag the first time they marched. Sensing a backlash, they waved American flags the second time. What Americans are only now beginning to understand is what this flow represents. "As long as we continue to have porous borders," writes Tancredo, "the problems associated with mass immigration—threat of terrorist infiltration, loss of American jobs and wage depreciation, urban sprawl and congestion, increased spending for social services and welfare benefits, soaring health-care costs, rising costs in education quality—will all continue to get much worse and much more expensive for the American citizen-taxpayer." Illegal immigrants are costing us billions every year, forcing hospitals out of business, contributing to crime waves in our cities. Amnesty is not the answer. There should be no amnesty. And we all need to understand that it is the policy of the Mexican government, no matter who is in charge, to encourage the illegal immigration of its poorest citizens instead of undertaking the economic changes that will stimulate business and foreign investment. To an unknown degree, the drug cartels are calling the shots in a Mexican government that is corrupt at every level. A government that is dependent on an estimated $20 billion in annual remittances from an army of illegal immigrants in America is no friend of America. Do not believe the lies that there are jobs Americans won’t take. They just won’t take jobs whose wages have been degraded by foreign cheap off-the-books labor. Those who employ them are sabotaging the nation. You need to know your State’s Representatives and Senators position on illegal immigration. Now. You need to know the positions of November’s candidates. Ask then, what are you going to do about illegal immigration? What are you going to do to secure our border with Mexico? Will you vote for amnesty in the form of the phony guest-worker program? The forthcoming national elections, like all those before will determine the future of the United States of America. |
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It does have, however, the blessing of the political and corporate elites of all three nations. A visit to the SPP Internet website (