President Bush Endorses CFR's Plan
Elites to Merge U.S., Canada,
and Mexico
elites have embarked on a plan to merge the U.S.
with Canada and Mexico over the next five years,
according to documents published by the influential
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Under the plan, called a "Security and Prosperity Partnership,"
the three countries will "integrate" their economies
and populations to create what the CFR terms "a common
economic space" with "a more open border for the movement
of goods and people," and which encompasses all three countries
within "a common security perimeter."
the Plan?
The merger of the three countries was agreed to in principle
by the three heads of state when they met for a North American
summit at President George Bush's Texas ranch in March, the
CFR said. None of the populations living in the three countries
have been consulted on whether they approve of the merger, however.
The CFR is a major policy-making apparatus for America's ruling
class, and consists of leaders from transnational corporations,
academia, government, and the corporate media. Its policy recommendations
are often implemented regardless of which party controls the
national government.
In the past the CFR has been accused of taking part in secret
plots to impose world government, but in fact the group discusses
its policy aims quite openly. Its plans for North America, developed
by the CFR's Independent Task Force on the Future of North America,
are available to the public on the group's website. The plan
was summarized in a widely distributed news release, also available
on its website, headlined "Trinational Call for a North
American Economic and Security Community by 2010."
The plan does not explicitly call for a single governing body
for the new three-country entity, which the CFR calls the "North
American Community," but it does recommend creation of
an unelected North American Advisory Council "to prepare
for and implement" the details of the plan. It says "the
governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States should
articulate as their long-range goal a common security perimeter
for North America." That means creating a "unified
border action plan" for the three nations, with "harmonized
visa and asylum regulations; joint inspection of container traffic
entering North American ports; and synchronized screening and
tracking of people, goods, and vessels..." In addition,
the common security perimeter would include "establishment
of a trinational threat intelligence center and joint training
for law enforcement."
The CFR's task force also recommends that the security plan
should include "a border pass, with biometric indicators,"
carried by the populations of the three countries. The three
governments "should commit themselves to the long-term
goal of dramatically reducing the need for physical scrutiny
of traffic, travel, and trade within North America." As
envisioned by the CFR, the common security perimeter inside
of which populations could traverse the three countries' borders
without inspection means that any foreign visitors admitted
by Mexico's notoriously corrupt federal police system would
be free to visit the U.S. without delay or additional scrutiny.
In other words, the national borders would simply cease to exist.
To fully integrate the three countries' economies, the CFR recommends
transfering wealth from the people of the U.S. to Mexico in
the form of a North American Investment Fund "designed
to channel resources for the purposes of connecting the poorer
parts of [Mexico] to the markets in the north," and "to
support education and technical training for Mexican states
and municipalities..." Elimination of all border controls
between the three countries will force the entire higher-paid
American labor force to compete with millions of lower-wage
laborers in Mexico in the newly created "seamless North
American market" which will guarantee "the extension
of full labor mobility to Mexico."
Nowhere in any of the CFR's documents on the North American
Economic and Security Community does the group mention whether
the electorates in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico, should have
the opportunity to vote on any aspect of the plan.
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