Thread: William: EMERGENCY RESEARCH HELP NEEDED !!!!!!!!

Friends,

Im working on a piece to mount on the ALIPAC homepage which further explains our view on New Haven, CT.

I've been asked not to branch out into SPP and NAU on Fox tonight because we have no time for that.

What I need is the following.

1. I need someone to go to spp.gov and look up the Leadership Reports 2005 and 2006. Please locate links and exact location in the text of the described "Trusted Traveler" programs which advocate biometric ID for people to move freely between the countries.

2. I need someone to go to the CFR website and dig into the 88 page "Building a North American Community" document released in the Spring of 2005 and find me the exact location of any info on biometrics and what I believe I read them describe as a "Mutual Electronic Security Perimiter" for Canada, america, and the US.

I believe that Homeland Security raided New Haven, not in retaliation for initiating this ID for illegals program, but because New Haven unveiled the prototype for all of America prior to the formalization of the Amnesty.

By doing so, New Haven puts their SPP / NAU plans at risk by showing that card before the other tenets of the plan are in place.

New Haven has exposed part of the plan for all Americans and illegal aliens and has made themselves a target for ALIPAC and the illegal aliens going there since the rest of the nation is not on board yet.

I need some rapid research help here while i write my draft and update the homepage

W

Not what you are looking for. Interesting neverless.

Failure to secure the external borders of North America will inhibit
the legitimate movement of people and goods within the continent.
After the 9/11 attacks, delays at the Canadian-U.S. border prompted
parts shortages in both countries, costing manufacturers millions of
dollars an hour. Trade across the Mexican-U.S. border also suffered in
the immediate aftermath of the attacks, which hinderedU.S. economic
growth. Continent-wide consequences mean that Canada and Mexico

To that end, the Task Force proposes the creation by 2010 of
a North American community to enhance security, prosperity, and
opportunity. We propose a community based on the principle affirmed
in the March 2005 Joint Statement of the three leaders that ‘‘our
security and prosperity are mutually dependent and complementary.’’
Its boundaries will be defined by a common external tariff and an outer
security perimeter within which the movement of people, products,
and capital will be legal, orderly, and safe. Its goal will be to guarantee
a free, secure, just, and prosperous North America.

• Our economic focus should be on the creation of a common economic
space that expands economic opportunities for all people in
the region, a space in which trade, capital, and people flow freely.

Despite the fact that Mexico is the second-largest trading partner
of the United States, it ranks only seventh in sending students there.
In 2004, only 13,000 Mexican undergraduate and graduate students
attended U.S. universities. Similarly,Canada is the largest trading partner
of the United States but ranked only fifth in educational exchanges,
with 27,000 students in the United States compared to 80,000 students
from India, followed by China, South Korea, and Japan. The number
ofMexicans studying in Canada remains very low—about 1,000. And
although American students study all over the world, relatively few go
toMexicoandCanada.Thesenumbers shouldbeexpanded dramatically
to deepen familiarity and increase knowledge in each country.PAGE 50

http://www.cfr.org/content/publications ... _final.pdf

Not sure if this is what you're looking for...this is from spp.gov 2005 leadership report. This first one is a little more than 3/4 down the page...

• Biometrics and secure documentation vision. We will work to develop systems that prevent high-risk travelers from coming to North America, and facilitate legitimate travel to and within North America, by enhancing our ability to verify traveler identities.

• We will test technology and make recommendations, over the next 12 months, to enhance the use of biometrics in screening travelers destined to North America with a view to developing compatible biometric border and immigration systems.

• We will develop standards for lower-cost secure proof of status and nationality documents to facilitate cross-border travel, and work to achieve optimal production before January 1, 2008.

• We will devise a single, integrated global enrollment program for North American trusted traveler programs within the next 36 months.

http://www.spp.gov/report_to_leaders/in ... to_leaders

and a little further down the page...near the end...

II. Preventing and Responding to Threats within North America

• U.S.- Mexico Border Enforcement against Smuggling Organizations. We will form intelligence sharing task force pilots to target cross border criminal activity, in particular criminal gang and trafficking organization networks, and thereby reduce violence along the border.

http://www.spp.gov/2006_report_to_leade ... to_leaders

Third paragraph down...

The United States, Canada, and Mexico are making progress to standardize fingerprint-based biometric technology. Moreover, the three countries are cooperating in conducting trials and reviewing the compatibility of their biometric traveler systems.

Nothing else was said about this in the 2006 report, that I could see.

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

1. I need someone to go to spp.gov and look up the Leadership Reports 2005 and 2006. Please locate links and exact location in the text of the described "Trusted Traveler" programs which advocate biometric ID for people to move freely between the countries.

I. Leadership Reports 2005
In the Report to Leaders 2005 http://spp.gov/report_to_leaders/index. ... to_leaders
Leadership report 2005

I found only one reference to the Trusted Traveler
program in the 4th bullet in I. Securing North America from External Threats (3/4 of the way down in the document):

"We will devise a single, integrated global enrollment program for North American trusted traveler programs within the next 36 months."

The 1st bullet in this
section mentions biometrics:

"Biometrics and secure documentation vision. We will work to develop systems that prevent high-risk travelers from coming to North America, and facilitate legitimate travel to and within North America, by enhancing our ability to verify traveler identities."

As does the second bullet in this section:

"We will test technology and make recommendations, over the next 12 months, to enhance the use of biometrics in screening travelers destined to North America with a view to developing compatible biometric border and immigration systems."

II. Leadership Reports 2006
In the Report to Leaders 2006
http://spp.gov/2006_report_to_leaders/i ... to_leaders

3rd paragraph mentions biometrics (only section in this document that mentions biometrics):

"We are achieving measurable progress on a number of security issues affecting our three countries. Canada, Mexico, and the United States have strengthened relationships in the areas of preparedness, law enforcement, and the screening of travelers and cargo. Furthermore, the three countries have improved processing times at border crossings while maintaining tight security. The United States, Canada, and Mexico are making progress to standardize fingerprint-based biometric technology. Moreover, the three countries are cooperating in conducting trials and reviewing the compatibility of their biometric traveler systems."

No mention of Trusted Traveler in this document.

[quote]• Develop a North American Border Pass. The three countries should develop a
secure North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers. This document
would allow its bearers expedited passage through customs, immigration, and
airport security throughout the region. The program would be modeled on the
U.S.-Canadian “NEXUSâ€

[quote] Develop a unified North American border action plan. The closing of the
borders following the 9/11 attacks awakened all three governments to the need for
rethinking management of the borders. Intense negotiations produced the bilateral
“Smart Bordersâ€

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases ... 331-1.html
NEXT STEPS...March, 2006

About 1/2 way down page...

Smart, Secure Borders. Leaders agreed to complete the following activities, to contribute to smart and secure borders, over the next twenty-four months:
• Collaborate to establish risk-based screening standards for goods and people that rely on technology, information sharing and biometrics.
• Develop and implement compatible electronic processes for supply chain security that use advanced electronic cargo information to analyze risk and ensure quick and efficient processing at the border;
• Develop standards and options for secure documents to facilitate cross-border travel;
• Exchange additional law enforcement liaison officers to assist in criminal and security investigations; and,
• Develop coordinated business resumption plans at border crossings to ensure legitimate trade continues.

I need to run to a meeting...can anyone help with the rest? Sorry guys.

Not sure what else is needed, but here's what I could find so far--

ALIPAC wrote

2. I need someone to go to the CFR website and dig into the 88 page "Building a North American Community" document released in the Spring of 2005 and find me the exact location of any info on biometrics and what I believe I read them describe as a "Mutual Electronic Security Perimeter" for Canada, america, and the US.

http://www.cfr.org/content/publicati...a_TF_final.pdf

Page 17 of the Adobe document, page xvii of the report--

The Task Force offers a detailed and ambitious set of proposals that
build on the recommendations adopted by the three governments at
the Texas summit of March 2005. The Task Force’s central recommendation
is establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and
security community, the boundaries of which would be defined by a
common external tariff and an outer security perimeter.

Page 25 of the Adobe Doc, page 3 of the report--

To that end, the Task Force proposes the creation by 2010 of
a North American community to enhance security, prosperity, and
opportunity. We propose a community based on the principle affirmed
in the March 2005 Joint Statement of the three leaders that ‘‘our
security and prosperity are mutually dependent and complementary.’’
Its boundaries will be defined by a common external tariff and an outer
security perimeter within which the movement of people, products,
and capital will be legal, orderly, and safe. Its goal will be to guarantee
a free, secure, just, and prosperous North America.

Some of this you already have--

Pages 30-32 of the doc, pages 8-10 of the report--

WHAT WE SHOULD DO NOW
• Establish a common security perimeter by 2010. The governments
of Canada, Mexico, and the United States should articulate
as their long-term goal a common security perimeter for
North America. In particular, the three governments should strive toward
a situation in which a terrorist trying to penetrate our borders will
have an equally hard time doing so, no matter which country he
elects to enter first.We believe that these measures should be extended
to include a commitment to common approaches toward international
negotiations on the global movement of people, cargo, and
vessels. Like free trade a decade ago, a common security perimeter for
North America is an ambitious but achievable goal that will require
specific policy, statutory, and procedural changes in all three nations.
• Develop a North American Border Pass. The three countries
should develop a secure North American Border Passwith biometric
identifiers. This document would allow its bearers expedited passage
through customs, immigration, and airport security throughout the
region. The program would be modeled on the U.S.-Canadian
‘‘NEXUS’’ and the U.S.-Mexican ‘‘SENTRI’’ programs, which
provide ‘‘smart cards’’ to allow swifter passage to those who pose
no risk. Only those who voluntarily seek, receive, and pay the costs
for a security clearance would obtain a Border Pass. The pass would
be accepted at all border points within North America as a complement
to, but not a replacement for, national identity documents
or passports.
• Develop a unified North American border action plan. The
closing of the borders following the 9/11 attacks awakened all three
governments to the need for rethinking management of the borders.
Intense negotiations produced the bilateral ‘‘Smart Borders’’ agreements.
Although the two borders are different and may in certain
instances require policies that need to be implemented at two speeds,
cooperation by the three governments in the following areas would
lead to a better result than a ‘‘dual-bilateral’’ approach:
-Harmonize visa and asylum regulations, including convergence
of the list of ‘‘visa waiver’’ countries;
-Harmonize entry screening and tracking procedures for people,
goods, and vessels (including integration of name-based and biometric watch lists);
-Harmonize exit and export tracking procedures;
-Fully share data about the exit and entry of foreign nationals; and
-Jointly inspect container traffic entering North American ports,
building on the Container Security Initiative.
• Expand border infrastructure. While trade has nearly tripled
across both borders since the Canadian-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
(FTA) and NAFTA were implemented, border customs facilities
and crossing infrastructure have not kept pace with this increased
demand. Even if 9/11 had not occurred, trade would be choked at
the border. There have been significant new investments to speed
processing along both the Canadian-U.S. and Mexican-U.S. borders,
but not enough to keep up with burgeoning demand and additional
security requirements. The three governments should examine the
options for additional border facilities and expedite their construction.
In addition to allowing for continued growth in the volume of
transborder traffic, such investments must incorporate the
latest technology, and include facilities and procedures that move as much
processing as possible away from the border.

Page 55 Adobe doc, Page 33 of the report

Additional and Dissenting Views
There is much in this report that should command support, especially
the goal of aNorthAmericancommunity that includes a fully developed
Mexico. I was particularly honored that the Task Force asked me to
prepare a paper on education, most of which was endorsed. But there
are some key points on which I dissent. States sometimes give up
individual sovereignty in favor of a common or joint approach because
that is the best way to solve a problem. But, in the trade-offs the benefits
must outweigh the costs. I am not persuaded that the benefits of a
common security perimeter are worth the risks in harmonizing visa
and asylum regulations. Problems in the Arar case, for example, show
the dangers. On the environment, the North Dakota water diversion
project threatens its Manitoba neighbor and ignores the 1909 Water
Boundaries Treaty. The commitment to a cleaner North American
environment must be stronger and certainly cannot wait until 2010.
Finally, I do not agree with reviewing those sections of NAFTA that
were initially excluded: cultural protection and a prohibition of bulk
water exports should remain within national, not joint, jurisdiction.
Thomas S. Axworthy