Thread: On CAFTA: American Sovereignty and Increased Illegal Immigr

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D.A. King

On CAFTA: American Sovereignty and Increased Illegal Immigration
By D.A. King
MichNews.com
Jul 7, 2005



For the reader who is not aware of the pending CAFTA issue in the House of Representatives, know that it runs 1000 pages long and that the U.S. Senate approved it in June. It now goes to the House, and the White House is pushing for a quick vote…before many Representatives figure out what it really is.



Like NAFTA?....you will love CAFTA.



From William Norman Grigg at The New American magazine:

“Pro-CAFTA Congressman Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) describes the region as ‘a potentially significant trading bloc with the United States.’ However, the aggregate economy of the six CAFTA nations is minuscule. ‘Add up the six CAFTA economies and you get a market the size of New Haven, Connecticut,’ points out trade analyst Alan Tonelson of the U.S. Business and Industry Council.�

Over the 4th of July weekend, I spoke to two Georgia Congressman's senior aides.

I asked what their guy's position on CAFTA was. At a Cobb County, Georgia GOP [ Note from D.A. - I am not a member of any political party] BBQ, one replied:

"You are the second person to ask me that... what is CAFTA?�

On the phone the next day, in answer to the same question, another aide said honestly:

"He doesn't have one yet."

The MSM has done a good job of burying the issue, even from some of the people who will have the privilege of voting on the NAFTA extension.

If passed, the loud sucking noise you will hear is more of our national sovereignty whooshing away - along with your tax money.

In Europe recently, even the French were allowed to vote [No!] on giving up their own sovereignty.

If passed, the loud pounding noise you will hear is the stampede of increased illegal immigration from Central America.

[b]So, more on CAFTA from Grigg to share with your own House Representative:

Why CAFTA Must Be Defeated:

* Taken together, the six CAFTA nations have a minuscule consumer economy â€â€

I don't see much benefit to the American people from CAFTA. We don't need some banana republic country telling us what to do or draining our resources.

You are right; there is no benefit to the Untied States. There a re a handful of big businesses that benefit from it in all countries but overall it will hurt the US for more reasons than one.