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Open-Borders Idea Hasn’t Faded
By D.A. King
(5/12/09) Along with Robert Pastor, author of a pre-9/11 book entitled âToward a North American Community,” former Mexican President Vicente Fox will advance his ânew vision for North American Prosperityâ at a public Kennesaw State University event this afternoon.
For those unfamiliar with the âNorth Americanist,’ open-borders agenda, here is a donât miss event.
I expect that many Georgians who have not yet heard that they should adopt a âNorth American identityâ will be quite surprised to hear the former president’s proposals.
Whether or not the reader is planning to attend the public KSU seminar today (1 p.m. to 5 p.m.), a little background is in order.
In a 2000 interview on ABC’s “This Week,” then Mexican President-elect Vicente Fox hopefully predicted that by 2010 people would move freely across the border between Mexico and the United States.
Again in 2000 on U.S. Mexico relations, Fox forecast that “when we think of 2025, there is not going to be a border. There will be a free movement of people just like the free movement of goods.”
His cure for illegal immigration from Mexico? Eliminate our immigration laws.
While his time frame may vary slightly in speech to speech, his stated goal never does: end that old-fashioned American sovereignty and eventually integrate the nations of the Americasââ âfrom Canada to Chileâ – into one colossal market place. Defined, defended borders are selfish and Americans live far too well.
âIs the dream of prosperity just for Americans or can it be shared with the rest of usâ? Fox asks while he has constantly pushed for the expansion of the 1994 NAFTA agreement to includeâŠpeople.
âSuperNaftaâ is the future, according to the man who was president as millions of his countrymen fled the grueling poverty of Mexico for âEl Norteâ.
In his autobiographical 2007 book: âRevolution of Hope,â Fox boasts: “I proposed a ‘NAFTA Plus’ plan to President Bush and Canada’s Prime Minister Jean Chretien to move us toward a single continental economic union, modeled on the European example.” (Page 101)
It would be alarming enough if Mr. Fox were a singular voice in the privileged and oh-so enlightened âPost Americanâ ruling class.
He isnât.
A July 2, 2001 Wall Street Journal editorial by Robert Bartley staked out that newspapers position in the title: âOpen Nafta Borders? Why Not?â. Then went on: âReformist Mexican President Vicente Fox raises eyebrows with his suggestion that over a decade or two Nafta should evolve into something like the European Union, with open borders for not only goods and investment but also people. He can rest assured that there is one voice north of the Rio Grande that supports his vision. To wit, this newspaperâŠindeed, during the immigration debate of 1984 we suggested an ultimate goal to guide passing policies – a constitutional amendment: âThere shall be open borders.â
Climbing on the open borders wagon on September 7, 2001, the Atlanta Journal Constitution chimed in to the public editorial support for open borders with an opinion piece of its own headlined âOur opinions: Bush, Fox should pursue union similar to Europeâ in which the newspaper went on to accurately note that âMexican President Vicente Fox envisions a North American economic alliance that will make the border between the United States and Mexico as unrestricted as the one between Tennessee and Georgiaâ.
Readers who may assume that the open borders agenda has faded since the beginning of the decade would be sadly wrong.
The concept of creating a colossal, continental Walmart using the scrap of the Founders sovereign nation as a foundation is alive and well.
Opining in an editorial on what should be done to deal with what he describes as âthe global messâ, Washington Post op-ed columnist Jim Hoagland last year advised the then as yet un-elected President Obama on change: âHere’s one example of new thinking he should pursue: The United States should apply to relations with hemispheric neighbors many of the lessons of the European Union and its half-century of economic and political integration. A functioning American Union that pools sovereignty is a goal worth introducing nowâ wrote Hoagland.
Remember that one: âpooling sovereignty.â It is likely to come up again.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Kennesaw State University for the opportunity to be exposed to Vicente Fox and his âvisionâ for the future of Franklinâs Republic.
We also owe it to ourselves to ask a great many questions of Mr. Fox. It doesnât seem that the mainstream media will.
See you there.
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D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society.
Reposted here with permission