Thread: Immigration & Integration

by Christopher S. Bentley
July 24, 2006


Europe got sucked into a "free trade" proposal that is morphing into a regional government. The United States is being pushed through the same process.

Open any international business college textbook these days - granted, this isn't something that an average person would do in his spare time for fun - and one will likely find some discussion about a topic called "regional integration." Sounds innocuous, doesn't it? That's how it is portrayed in the halls of modern academia - intertwined with such labels as "free trade," "falling trade barriers," or "lifting all the boats."

Well, we Americans are about to find out the hard way just what this is all about - unless we change course. The Europeans got sucked into a common market "free trade" proposal that morphed into an economic union and is now morphing into a full-blown political union - a regional government. The United States is being pushed through the same process. However, whereas the European nations took 50 years to go through it, the internationalists in our government intend to complete their plan much sooner - as in two decades.

How does regional integration work? Picture, if you will, a cross section of an onion, with its several layers. At the center is the core that starts the process: a free trade area. My trusty textbook says that in "a free trade area, all barriers to the trade of goods and services among member countries are removed." That's how NAFTA was sold - and that's what Americans who supported NAFTA thought they would get. What we really got was something else.

The next phase is to create a customs union. My textbook continues: "A customs union eliminates trade barriers between member countries and adopts a common external trade policy." It is certainly not insignificant that Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member Robert Pastor pushed this idea before Congress in 2005 in a proposal entitled "Building a North American Community," wherein Mexico, Canada, and the United States would adopt a common tariff. The scheme also calls for the integration of Mexican and Canadian personnel "into the Department of Homeland Security," among other things. How fun.

The third phase is a common market. A common market "allows factors of production to move freely between members. Labor and capital are free to move because there are not restrictions on immigration, emigration, or cross-border flows of capital between member countries." This is exactly what is behind the Bush administration's fanatical zeal to implement its "guest worker"/amnesty program. By granting amnesty to the millions of illegals already here, the floodgates would be swung wide open for many more illegals to cross our borders.

A consequence of battering down our nation's borders by permitting illegal immigration would conveniently lead us into the fourth phase, which is economic union. This phase not only includes everything that a common market does, but also "requires a common currency, harmonization of members' tax rates, and a common monetary and fiscal policy. Such a high degree of integration demands a coordinating bureaucracy and the sacrifice of significant amounts of national sovereignty to that bureaucracy." Yep, you read that right. We are getting some of the "coordinating bureaucracy" under NAFTA's Chapter 11 tribunals, which have begun overturning U.S. court decisions. The monetary policy and harmonized tax rates are quietly being planned even as the spoils plundered from U.S. taxpayers are ladled out to the rich and infamous in Mexico, under the pretense of building up Mexico's infrastructure. This has started with the North American Development Bank. A regional currency, like the euro, will be pushed next.

The final phase is political union. We should ask ourselves: what would be left of our Constitution at that point?

The CFR internationalists who are positioned in key spots of our nation's political institutions are racing down the "free trade" highway toward a North American Union - which they intend to complete by 2010. So near are they to this goal, one of its chief architects could hardly contain himself. In his 2002 Memoirs, CFR kingpin David Rockefeller wrote: "Some [ideological extremists] believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

We should not forget that even Karl Marx loved "the Free Trade system" because of its "destructive" capacity to "break up old nationalities … and [hasten] the Social Revolution."

For years, the John Birch Society, and its affiliate The New American, have been warning about these so-called free trade agreements - which are designed to build "one world, if you will." We worked to stop the passage of NAFTA during the Clinton administration but failed in the Congress by a small number of votes. Had we had more help, we would have beaten it. We need your help now to stop illegal immigration, "guest worker"/amnesty programs, and the creation of a North American Union.

Make no mistake about it, these power elites whom Mr. Rockefeller represents mean business every step of the way. And we had better, too.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/pu ... 4049.shtml

Sounds innocuous, doesn't it? That's how it is portrayed in the halls of modern academia - intertwined with such labels as "free trade," "falling trade barriers," or "lifting all the boats."

Except in the case of the U.S., the goal is to sink our "boat" to the level of the third world cesspool that is Mexico, both in wages and in quality of life.