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Experts Call for Common North America Border
Yahoo - Reuters ^ | May 17, 2005 | Larry Fine

Posted on 05/18/2005 3:16:34 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative

The United States, Canada and Mexico should establish a common security perimeter to guard against terrorism in North America, a tri-national independent task force said in a report released on Tuesday.

The countries should police their borders together to help border trade, allow easier movement of citizens and to keep out potential security threats, the task force said at New York's Council on Foreign Relations.

"If our two borders, the one between Canada and the United States and the U.S. and Mexico, became a frontline for security the impact that would have on normal relations and economic relations would be profound," said co-chairman John Manley, a former Canadian deputy prime minister and minister of finance.

The task force was sponsored by private groups in each of the three countries including the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, and there was no indication that governments would act on the proposals.

The report, titled "Building a North American Community," also called for free movement within the continent for citizens through a North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers and other measures to increase economic and military cooperation between the countries.

William Weld, a former Republican governor of Massachusetts, and Pedro Aspe, former finance minister of Mexico, were the other co-chairmen of the task force, comprised of over 20 experts from government, business and academia.

Manley contrasted the scrutiny of goods flowing between Canada and the United States with a lax attitude to imports arriving at shipping ports.

"As I told my one-time U.S. counterpart (U.S. Homeland Security chief) Tom Ridge once, 'You inspect a grain car entering the U.S. from Saskatchewan closer than you do container traffic coming into the United States from the Middle East.' And I think that's still the case."

Other recommendations included improving labor mobility, developing an energy strategy with greater emphasis on reducing harmful emissions and establishing an investment fund to build infrastructure to connect Mexico's poorer regions in the South to the market of the North.


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1 posted on 05/18/2005 3:16:35 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

Pass


2 posted on 05/18/2005 3:18:36 PM PDT by Mortikhi
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To: West Coast Conservative

Why do I sense that Vicente Fox is behind this?


3 posted on 05/18/2005 3:19:27 PM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) (From Roe v Wade to Terri Schiavo, the RATS have become a death cult...)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Not likely.


4 posted on 05/18/2005 3:19:44 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: West Coast Conservative
This is not necessary.


5 posted on 05/18/2005 3:19:55 PM PDT by rdb3 (One may smile and smile and still be a villain.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

pffft.


6 posted on 05/18/2005 3:20:01 PM PDT by Finger Monkey (H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Bullhockey, I want our borders honored and those crossing illegally to pay consequences.


7 posted on 05/18/2005 3:20:47 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

So basically, Canada and Mexico want us to foot the bill for guarding their borders. No thanks.

Best Regards

Sergio


8 posted on 05/18/2005 3:21:32 PM PDT by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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To: Mortikhi

Yep, Instead of everyone else shoring up their security, they want to put us at a disadvantage.


9 posted on 05/18/2005 3:22:23 PM PDT by SALChamps03
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To: West Coast Conservative

No Thanks.


10 posted on 05/18/2005 3:22:50 PM PDT by Dallas59 (" I have a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush" John Kerry -2004)
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To: West Coast Conservative

The devil is in the details...sounds fishy to me but I'm willing to listen...


11 posted on 05/18/2005 3:23:16 PM PDT by Cornpone (Aging Warrior -- Aim High -- Who Dares Wins)
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To: Mortikhi

OK. How about we simply do it the traditional way and invade and take over Mexico and Canada? We can then apply our own constitution, establish order and create a greater US spaning the entire Northern Hemisphere. That would certainly fix the problem - any takers?


12 posted on 05/18/2005 3:23:59 PM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: West Coast Conservative

This free movement of all citizens within North America would amount to a merger of the labor markets in the three countries, thus driving down wages and salaries in the US and Canada while raising personal income in Mexico. This would only benefit large employers and would really hurt unskilled workers in the US and Canada.


13 posted on 05/18/2005 3:24:16 PM PDT by defenderSD ("I am not a troll" said the troll as a thunderous Zot descended on him.)
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To: rdb3

correct. something else lies below this public-consumption proposal.

I like the new tag-graphic, btw


14 posted on 05/18/2005 3:24:18 PM PDT by King Prout (blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
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To: rdb3

Hey, I like the new variation on your logo! :)


15 posted on 05/18/2005 3:24:21 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (Allen/DeLay '08!!)
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To: West Coast Conservative
No problem.

In return, Canada and Mexico will need to implement our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

16 posted on 05/18/2005 3:25:16 PM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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The report, titled "Building a North American Community," also called for free movement within the continent for citizens through a North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers and other measures to increase economic and military cooperation between the countries.

Here it comes: The New World Order. The Bushes are good at getting others to present their strategery.

17 posted on 05/18/2005 3:25:59 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Truth is a rare commodity. Seek it, know it and cherish it.)
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We already have a common defense perimeter. It's called "the border of the United States".


18 posted on 05/18/2005 3:26:10 PM PDT by Regulator
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My concern is with Mexico (isn't it everyone's?, I imagine the Mexican side would use this to more easily slip illegal Mexi's across. The devil is definately in the details.


19 posted on 05/18/2005 3:26:37 PM PDT by the anti-liberal (It's time the left - left!!!)
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To: Interesting Times
In return, Canada and Mexico will need to implement our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

They should also adopt 100% of our federal law and pay all applicable federal taxes as states in the union.
20 posted on 05/18/2005 3:27:07 PM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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