AMERICA ON THE PRECIPICE

THE NAU CONTINUED

2. The Trans-Texas Corridor of NAFTA.

In her article, "Internationalizing US Roads", Phyllis Spivey, columnist for the website, News with Views, writes:

"Imagine this: your state government puts a transportation corridor in your neighborhood. It's nearly a quarter-mile wide. It will serve vehicles and trains and incorporate oil, gas, electric and water lines. Try to fight it and you'll not only face the combined might of your local, state, and federal governments, but foreign interests as well. The internationalization of U.S. roads has begun.

"We're not just talking about isolated instances of privately-built toll roads with foreign management, as we've seen in Southern California. We're talking about networks of toll roads that may be built by foreign builders, managed by foreign operators, function primarily to accommodate foreign goods, and connect U.S. roads to similar networks in Canada, Mexico and, later, Central and South America."

TNA Special Report provides an excellent in-depth look at what it calls "Paving Over Our Borders" in an article by Kelly Taylor, Austin-based writer and film-maker, and the producer of a politically based TV talk show.

To learn just how far-reaching and treacherous the Trans-Texas Corridor, part of the North American Union transcontinental highway system is and what its impact is likely to be, we only have to look at what happened to Sam Harrell and Bubba Kay, Texas ranchers, in the Austin region: they worked hard "for six years to have their ranch certified 'organic' and their cattle [Kobe beef] as genetically pure and hormone free as possible, only to have that State of Texas highway" authority confiscate over half their land. I use the term confiscate intentionally because you, see, my dear American friend, the state would not pay fair market price and much worse as you will soon see. Outright theft!

How could such an injustice happen in the USA? Kelly Taylor tells us:

" . . . in 2001, the State of Texas came to call. Sam and Bubba learned a highway was coming, and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) claimed 174 acres of their ranch for road construction. Through a murky labyrinth of questionable processes and eminent domain, it appropriated prime ranch acreage to build Texas State Highway 130 (SH130), a toll road now bisecting once pristine acres 100 yards from the ranch office.

"When we say pristine, we mean it. The land required three years of special treatment to earn the coveted 'organic' certification. That certification is tied, not to the cattle raised there, but to the ground. Harrell ranch acreage met the world's highest standards for raising NHTC. The costly beeves followed, requiring another three-year certification and careful breeding to meet NHTC requirements. A complex control system of cattle growing, segregation at slaughter, tissue sampling, and other steps distinguish this system, but the payoff was impressive. The two men considered this a special property as it produced a special income, and was a much more expensive outfit than the average Texas ranch. There is no similar ground in Texas. The state, however, didn't see it that way.

"The state hired an appraiser to evaluate the property. According to Sam, 'Our point of view is that it was special land, but they told us "we don't care, it's just dirt." ' When an offer was finally made, it was below the land's real value, and Harrell Ranch went to court. A jury upheld the Harrell viewpoint and awarded a figure about three times the state's offer, but still below market value. Ranch losses alone were bigger than the award. The state appealed, and the case continues.

" 'What the state offered wasn't fair market value. Even if a competent case is made, they won't change their minds. The process is intellectually dishonest,' Sam told THE NEW AMERICAN. What he objected to most is that the state won't allow the landowner to see the standards used to make the offer, yet it won't look at new information after its offer is tendered. [Emphasis added.]

"The 'process' can take a heavy toll. Their case pending, Sam and Bubba are in limbo about the fate of their remaining acres, but maintain genuine concern for their neighbors' predicaments. 'The processes the state uses are heavily biased to disadvantage the property owner who can' afford lawyers, consultants, or are emotionally unable to sustain a long, grinding process,' [Ibid.] Sam said. He was referring to about 600 property owners along the highway segments in question, some of whom are small business owners, retired people, or on limited incomes. He believes the state's strategy is 'wait them out.' " [pp. 19-20.]

Kelly Taylor goes on to inform the reader that the state proceeded to violate even the takings procedure time period, so that the ranchers lost everything because they were not permitted, as is supposed to be the law, the notification time to minimize business interruption and damages. The taking was immediate!

The result was, that, although the state did pay something, the means it employed for seizing the property and notifying the owners of when and how was so impossible and unjust that the property that was left was rendered useless. In fact, the property permitted to the ranchers is not only not contiguous, but whole parcels have no access whatsoever until and when the state decides to provide access! I am not making this stuff up, folks. Welcome to Fascism, American style. To compound injury with fatal fractures, the state cut off resource to water, without which one neither farms nor ranches, or even lives.

This is just the beginning of the nightmare. You see, there are many Texans in eminent danger of the unjust application of eminent domain [ratified and given the stamp of approval by our US Supreme Court, whom I have dubbed Robbin' Hoods in Robes']. Why? Because the Trans-Texas Corridor [TTC] is a devouring monster running from Laredo, Texas, to Oklahoma---"much of it encompassing a 1,200-foot-wide swath of passenger, freight, and rail capabilities, oil and water pipelines, and electricity and broad band cabling." [p. 20] Anyone with property in its path faces the same or very similar treatment. Once a monster is unleased, it is hard to contain it. The construction of the TTC may just be the most hotly contested issue in Texas. Local and state residents who take an interest in such shenanigans question the need for the highway in the first place.

Taylor adds: "For unfortunate property owners in its path, there's little mercy, as the scope of eminent domain reaches ever-bigger dimensions. TxDOT's own documents revealed this 2004 statement by Coby Chase, TxDOT legislative affairs director: 'The number of courts authorized to hear eminent domain cases should be expanded.' [Emphasis added.] Sam Harrell recalls a local newspaper article indicating that there's an abnormally low number of incidents resulting in case settlements, suggesting many landowners are fighting back.

"Texans aren't alone in their woes. The TTC is intended to be interconnected with similar highway infrastructure that connects Mexico's west coast to Canada. Called by its advocates in NASCO (North America's SuperCorridor Coalition) the 'NASCO Corridor,' it is more well known among its critics as the NAFTA Superhighway. This south-north corridor is unheard of in size and was dubbed the 'largest engineering project ever undertaken in the U.S.' by NASCO."

A careful look at NASCO and other documents proves that this vast superhighway is designed for the express purpose of hauling goods from China and India, first unload in Mexican port for shipping to the united States and Canada. Guess who will be the dock workers and truckers: Underpaid Mexicans who will then eliminate the same workers in America and our neighbor to the north. What is truly frightening, with immense import for the safety of our country is that these trucks will not have to undergo border checks. That's right, your eyes are not out of focus, no border checks! That is, until Kansas City, after they are well in to the heartland and the inland port that is given the name of "SmartPort". This is all according the NASCO and a pact between the three North American signatories. This "pact" is called the Security and Prosperity Partnership [SPP], a Bush pet. And if this is not enough, read on: The SmartPort, which is in the center of the USA will not be run by Americans at all, but by Mexican Custom officials!!!!! SmartPort even has its own propaganda web site, real slick. It boasts:

"For those who live in Kansas City, the idea of receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may sound unlikely, but later this month that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality."

The site says further: that new Mexican shipping rules "could make shipping containers through Lazaro Cardenas [Mexico] up to 15 percent less expensive than through Long Beach or Los Angeles."

Kelly Taylor, writing for TNA Special Report, p. 22: "The KC SmartPort web site insists that expanding traffic through the Mexican port is wise in this age of terrorism in case a U.S. port gets hit by terrorists, but the new system makes attacking the United States easier." [Emphasis added.]

According to Taylor "Shipments would be pre screened in Southeast Asia. Upon arrival in Mexico, containers will pass through multiple X-ray and gamma ray screenings" and then containers will simply be tracked via "global positioning systems [GPS] or radio frequency identification systems [RFJD] . . . on their way to inland trade-processing centers in Kansas City and elsewhere in the United States." The trucks would simply stream across our border unchecked by U.S. Customs until they reach a city in the United States. [p. 22.]

In other words, our borders are fluid, co-terminus with trucking routes in the hands of custom personnel who are largely Mexican. Do they, like so many of their fellow Mexicans have a vested interest in smuggling and taking back the southwestern part of the USA, which a number of them think belongs to them in the first place? Angry, defamatory letters arrived in my e-mail box last year when I was doing a Border Watch update. The totality was that we Americans are thieves, evil, unChristian, and that they as Mexican nationals had a right to take what they wanted in America. Latino, good, gringo, bad. I declared that this was an act of war and that America was being targeted for invasion. That was before May 1, 2006. On that date La Raza Unida issued what amounts to A DECLARATION OF WAR, when they excoriated Americans who wanted US Immigration law upheld, deeming it immoral among other descriptions, calling the law A DECLARATION OF WAR. La Raza means "the race". And the race is all-important; issues of actual justice are not even a blip on the radar screen. Another La Raza organization, simply La Raza, is very influential in getting American corporate sponsors to lobby for what is essentially an open border, although the organization phrases it differently, benefits for all workers, etc.---an entire panoply of benefits that would remove all distinction between illegal aliens and American citizens. It has branches or representative bodies in every region of the US, including Maine, the Maine Rural Workers Coalition, based out of Lewiston. La Raza is one of the more militant Latino groups. You might be interested to lean who some of their corporate "partners" are:

"Large and small, corporations value NCLR's mission, work, credibility, and passion for improving opportunities for Hispanics throughout the country. Corporations such as Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, PepsiCo, Inc., Citigroup, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., State Farm Insurance Companies, Comcast Communications, and Verizon believe that partnering with NCLR – the largest, most influential Hispanic advocacy organization in the U.S.---expands their engagement with the Hispanic community and gives them a direct way to support vital programs that serve the community."

Elsewhere on their website they state:

"NCLR conducts immigration policy analyses and advocacy activities in its role as a civil rights organization. The primary focus of these activities is to encourage immigration policies that are fair and nondiscriminatory, to encourage family reunification, and to enact necessary reforms to the current immigration system.

These are code words for amnesty or open borders. Now we already know from the Minutemen who are valiantly trying to defend the southern border as lay patriots that some of the Mexican border guards have fired at Americans, not illegals, trying to cross over. Query, what about the loyalty of Mexican custom officials located deep within the heartland of America? Would Mexico permit Americans to act as custom officials in Mexico City? We all know the answer, do we not?

Of interest is that Bank of America is proud of offering credit to illegal aliens, according to a recent news report.

As Taylor astutely observes:

"Knowing how poorly our borders are monitored now, does this make sense? People are right to be anxious about that---present relaxed border policy has already caused increased drug traffic, more illegal" aliens , gangs and their violent methods, and a horde of uninsured Mexican truckers. [TNA Special Report, p. 22.]

Are we overstating things? Hardly. Read on.

The TTC, which is model for all of the future NASC Corridor projects, is going to be to funded by tolls not only on the planned superhighways, and here is the clincher, but on those roads already in existence, mark these words, that are scheduled to be changed into toll roads. Moreover, in the case of the TTC development contracts in Texas have been awarded to a Spanish company, Cintra, "in exchange
for giving Texas a portion of the toll revenue." [Ibid.]

According to the Dallas Morning News, Cintra will pay about $1.2 billion to Texas. "In turn," stated the News, "the state agrees to allow the company to set and collect tolls on whatever it builds for the next 50 years." [Ibid.; note that the web site of the DMN lists 138 articles on Cintra alone.]

Our main concern, as if all of this was not enough, is the peril to national sovereignty because the corridor is not designed only for the fast transport of goods and people. These corridors are the necessary infrastructure for building a North American Union. Europe already has a comparable network of transport---the Trans-European Network---constructed to physically link all EU [European Union] countries. The EU has supplanted the rightful authority of the member states, and some are on record as regretting their joining the Union, but see no way out now. That unleashed monster again.

Taylor informs us:

"After the 2005 signing of the Security and Prosperity Partnership [SPP---see more later below in no. 4] between Canada, Mexico, and the United States, host of documents surfaced revealing the underlying agenda of this massive project's promoters. The SPP documents committed and directed U.S. policy toward continental merger with Canada and Mexico to form a North American Union, and outlined necessary infrastructure. [Ibid., emphasis added.]"

The SPP mandates call for "facilitating multimodal corridors" toward the "improvement of North America's transportation system."

We know that the whole setup is dangerous because those in charge used secrecy, not open discussion, which is the American system. Taylor calls is "stealth", and I concur. What do we mean exactly?

The building of the corridor infrastructure was the focus, rather than directly mentioning the new North American Union. Why?

"According to Corridor Watch, a group opposing the TTC, Governor Rick Perry announced his Corridor vision in 2002, instructed the Texas Department of Transportation to prepare an action plan and within six-months the Department of Transportation presented the finished product to the state Transportation Commission. 'Without any substantive discussion or debate and without public comment,' the Commission approved it, a plan projected to cost up to $185 billion and take up to 50 years to build." [Phyllis Spivey, "Internationalizing US Roads"]

Phyllis Spivey, columnist with News with Views:

"Nearly two dozen states have passed legislation allowing their transportation systems to operate toll roads and okaying private firms to build and run them. The Bush Administration is easing the way for states to convert car pool lanes to toll lanes, and to allow private investors to build and operate highways. Converting existing roads to toll corridors---thereby forcing taxpayers to pay each time they use roads for which they’ve already paid---is a great revenue producer for big spending governments.

"California might be next. Governor Schwarzenegger reportedly favors toll roads and last February offered a provocative glimpse of California’s future: 'We’re going to make an announcement really soon where we’re going to look at our whole infrastructure and transportation and we have a very creative way of financing it. We want to approach it in a very radical way and then look at all kinds of transportation.' "

Resistance to such a union as the NAU and the corridors to lock it in place is growing, once the folks find out what is really going on.

The two ranchers we opened this section with have discovered tragically, and first-hand, what tyranny means, that is, when government places itself above those who put them in office, holding themselves unaccountable, then run roughshod over those who stand in their way. The Harrell Ranch case is not yet settled, it is still pending in the courts; nothing can be done with the remaining property. As always when dealing with underhanded operators who claim to know better than you and I what is in our own best interest, irony plays a prominent role: "An ancestor of Sam, Jacob Harrell, came to Texas and
settled as one of the first five families of Austin's colony, choosing a spot very near the present ranch location. When Stephen F. Austin established his colony, those pioneers came for cheap and plentiful land, freedom and prosperity, and 'paid a high price for risky choices.' In April of 1836, during Texas' bitter Independence War, the early Texans fled their homes in advance of Santa Anna's Mexican army as he attempted to conquer Texas following the defeat of the Alamo. It doesn't quite seem fair that Sam Harrell and Bubba Kay should still be having to do that same thing today." [Ibid., p. 23.]

Taylor goes on to relate that public outrage has prompted several Texas lawmakers to introduce legislation opposing the TTC. She says that two bills filed by state Representative Lois Kolkhorst show promise. "H.B. 2772 would set in place a two-year moratorium preventing TxDOT from entering construction or funding contracts with a private company. H.B. 3647 would force the Texas Attorney General to examine the North American Union and NAFTA so the public will know the far-reaching consequences of the super corridor." [Ibid.]

3. Illegal Aliens.

The Phyllis Schlafly Report on the Eagle Forum website succinctly and with precision documents the following:

That while some Americans struggle to pay for health care, there are Mexicans who do not have this problem as they simply have their Mexican ambulance cross the border into Arizona, Mexico, California, or Texas for free medical treatment. How is this paid for? The taxpayers and deliberately inflated bills sent to Medicaid and insurance companies.

The federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act actually mandates US hospitals with emergency-room services to treat anyone who shows up for care including illegal aliens. Congress passed the act, knowing it was unfunded and it did not care.

It would be one thing if we were talking about Mexicans who may have had an accident close to the border. But we aren't. The real deal is that we have illegal aliens with serious health problems who are deliberately sent to the US after Mexican hospitals discover they can't pay for services and have no insurance.

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In Cochise County, Arizona alone, the cost was 30% of its annual budget. The Southeast Arizona Medical Center in Douglas is on the verge of bankruptcy. Some emergency rooms and pre-natal units have closed because they can't afford to stay open. This hurts American citizens who also need emergency treatment and have babies. Just who is being selfish and unjust?
Mrs. Schlafly says that Arizona hospitals offered to give medical equipment and ambulances to Mexican hospitals, but Mexican customs officials have not permitted much of it to enter Mexico. Why? She answers: "They apparently prefer to send their sick to U.S. hospitals rather than care for them in Mexico. Other costs of dumping Mexicans on U.S. hospitals include transporting the seriously ill by helicopter from small border hospitals to Tucson or Phoenix. This cost ranges from $7,000 to $20,000 a trip." $20, 000 a trip. And you and I are hard-pressed to pay $90 for an ambulance ride to our local hospital just 8 miles away. Perhaps we should renounce our US citizenship, migrate to Mexico, become citizens, then ride for "free".

In San Antonio, Texas, University Health System officials proposed a statewide quarter-cent sales tax to help hospitals pay for uninsured persons who show up for care, which includes illegals. Houston's Harris County Hospital District spent $330 million to treat and immunize illegal aliens, which was at least a fifth of the uninsured cases.

"In California, where the state budget crunch is forcing reductions in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, observers warn of an approaching catastrophe in the health-care system. Almost one in five Californians lacks health insurance, yet the law requires hospitals to continue to serve illegal aliens free."

These costs are unduly heavy because both Medicaid and Medicare have reduced reimbursement rates compounded by higher medical malpractice premiums accompanied by states' increasing revenue shortfalls. Hospitals are often hit with providing follow-up care when an uninsured patient remains bedridden for months.

But not just the border states are impacted: According to the the Florida Hospital Association illegal aliens accrued unpaid bills of $40.5 million in the year 2006. "Uninsured illegal alien Saul Diaz, after an auto accident, spent a year in a Gwinnett Medical Center hospital, racking up an unpaid bill of $1 million. Another illegal alien repeatedly stabbed himself in the stomach, and it cost Gwinnett three months of care and $390,000 to restore him to health."

This does not even take into account those illegal aliens who are injured in highway accidents when the the trucks which are smuggling them into the country are driven at high speed by uninsured Mexican drivers attempting to elude the police. Incidents such as these have been recorded in Utah and Iowa, which are not "border" states.

U.S. taxpayers are also dumped on as if they were nothing but saps by paying for food stamps that have been stolen and then either given or sold for a fee to illegals. These illegals arrive here from countries that have no respect or understanding of the natural law-and my e-mail last year bears this out-that a crime has been committed, the crime of theft does not even occur to them or if it did it apparently does not much matter. This fraud among illegal aliens was revealed just last year when Ohio discovered that a man from the Middle East and his uncle had deposited $24 million from illegally obtained food stamps in bank accounts which they held for their chain of food and video stores. his is but one such serious case.

Social Security and the quandary over how to fix its shortfall due in full when the present generation retires, is now at a fever pitch. Bush wants a change, one far more controversial asking offering younger workers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes. The administration has a deal into add to the bulging Social Security rolls thousands upon thousands of Mexicans working here both legally and illegally. Instead of fixing the problem it invites disaster while undermining the rule of law, because rewarding a blatant disregard for just laws only serves to entice further waves of alien migrations, all needing a hand-out.

As Mrs. Schlafly puts it: "If the illegal aliens manage to elude U.S. border guards and escape death on the highway in crowded vans or trucks driven by inexperienced drivers, many manage to land in various locations far away from Mexico, such as Colorado, Iowa or Georgia. They can then hope to get hired by a U.S. employer willing to close his eyes to how they got so far from home.

"Nevertheless, the illegals are told by [Vicente] Fox [former President of Mexico] and other Mexican officials to "think Mexican" first and send as much as they can scrape out of their pitiful paychecks back to relatives in Mexico. According to a Pew Hispanic Center and Inter-American Development Bank report, Mexicans in the United States will send $13 billion this year to relatives in Mexico."

Believe it or not, our Social Security Administration has discussed with Mexico an agreement that would permit Mexicans to receive U.S. Social Security benefits. "One plan is to allow Mexicans, who were not employed in the U.S. long enough to collect U.S. Social Security benefits, to count the time they worked in Mexico as part of their mandatory 10 years or 40 quarters."

Another exorbitant scheme is to provide SS benefits to 5 million Mexicans or more who are working illegally employed in America after having supplied fake Social Security numbers to their employers. "Our actuaries are working on the numbers," said Social Security spokesman Jim Courtney.

Up to $345 billion could be siphoned from the Social Security "trust fund" over the next twenty years, mostly to people who worked in the United States illegally. "This doesn't even count the cost of making them eligible for Social Security disability, a program already plagued by fraud."

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After the folks in the trenches began to start asking the right questions about the Bush policy and Congress' laissez faire attitude, the open talk on "amnesty" changed. The new tactic was as Kelly Taylor said, "stealth". How it works is this: There is a little card that looks like a California driver's license and goes by a strange foreign name: matricula consular.

The Center for Immigration Studies, [CIS] calls it the means to "Advances Mexico's Immigration Agenda".

After 9/11, opposition in the United States to an illegal-alien amnesty grew so much that Mexico concentrated on gaining acceptance in the United States for the "matricula consular." Mexico’s new strategy is a direct challenge to U.S. sovereignty. How? Because it aggressively lobbies state and local governments into changing America’s de facto immigration policy to forestall any meaningful congressional action. It continues to do so while the U.S. government just sits by and watches, in other words, for all practical purposes gives tacit consent.

How does matricula consular operate?

After it was discovered that all 19 9/11 hijackers had valid or fake Social Security numbers and 18 of the 19 had authentic or phony driver's licenses or motor vehicle ID cards, the public demand that steps be taken to tighten the eligibility requirements for both Social Security cards and driver's licenses. Now, it is common practice for an ID to be required in order to enter certain buildings, gain access to secure areas at airports, et cetera.

Wanting to ensure that its nationals could illegally stay unhampered in the US, the Fox government provided its migrating nationals a Mexican identification that would be accepted by U.S. authorities.

It could not just issue passports, since the US requires Mexican citizens to obtain a visa before entering the country, which is obviously irrelevant to those who cross over illegally. But possession of a Mexican passport without a visa would serve to bring attention to their illegal status.

So the Mexican government turned to the matricula consular, established in 1870 to help Mexican citizens living abroad get help from their local consulate if needed. "In its simplest form the matricula card is an official Mexican government document that certifies the name and age of the bearer. Well over one million matriculas were already in circulation in the United States before the September 2001 terrorist attacks. Even though those cards contain no security features, they remain valid, according to a consulate official in New York."

The CIS informs us that:

"No one disputes that Mexico has a right to issue the matricula consular and maintain a registry of its citizens living in other nations. What is in dispute is the wisdom of American institutions and governmental entities accepting as official identification a foreign government's document, the purpose of which is to make it easier for their nationals to reside in the United States illegally.

" . . . concerns have been raised by members of Congress in letters sent to the Secretary of State and the Treasury Department and by the Governor of Colorado, who asked a Mexican consul general to explain her office's lobbying efforts on behalf of the matricula. Similarly, concerned citizens’ organizations have become more vocal at the local level, explaining U.S. immigration law as regards illegal aliens and pointing out legal risks localities may run by subverting those laws.

"The reason why we find ourselves addressing the far-reaching implications of the matricula issue is an almost total lack of interior enforcement of our immigration laws. [Emphasis added.] This has resulted in an illegal population of nine million people---40 percent are visa overstayers and 60 percent crossed our borders without permission. Of the latter group, the vast majority are Mexicans."

Vicente Fox told his 47 consulates in the United States to issue these cards to Mexicans living illegally in the US and they lined up by the thousands to pay $29 for one.

Only an illegal alien actually needs a matricula consular, so these cards must have another purpose and, of course, there is one. The matricula consular is a sham I.D. designed to be used to acquire American privileges and benefits to which the card holder is not entitled. The Fox method of getting around U.S. law.

In conjunction with the issuing of the matricula consular, Mexican consuls have applied pressure on state and local governments and institutions to accept the card as if it were an American-issued I.D. Were they successful" You bet! In fact, thirteen states now accept matriculas for the purpose of giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens. And once an illegal has a driver's license, he no longer needs his matricula consular. Bow you see it, now you don't! Oh clever. Now if only the Mexican authorities would use the same brains to devise a system of government that assists small business in Mexico. You might be interested to learn that 18 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 carried a driver's license, their key to boarding the planes they used as weapons of destruction.

Wells Fargo and Bank of America---no surprise--- are just two of 74 banks that now accept matriculas for opening a bank account.

The Center for Immigration Studies learned that the U.S. Treasury Department "winked at this practice in a sly footnote to its report to Congress (10-22-02) on implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act [which was supposed to guard against identity fraud]. Footnote #17 stated, 'The proposed regulations do not discourage bank acceptance of the "matricula consular" identity card that is being issued by the Mexican government to immigrants.'

Police departments and or cities from Los Angeles to Houston to Georgia to Chicago permit the use of the matricula card, thus criminals are able to hide their crimes simply because the police are less prone "to run background checks, take fingerprints, deport, or search for fraudulent documents."

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi [D-CA], while Minority Leader convinced the federal building in San Francisco to accept the matricula as a substitute for valid identification for entering the building for purposes usually reserved to people with American-issued I.D. A week later the General Services Administration stopped recognition of matriculas while an investigation was launched. I do not know the current status of the investigation.

The acceptance of matriculas is doubly foolhardy because the Mexican consulates do not authenticate the documents, which means no background checks, and no database to check for duplicates to the same person. Therefore, without any equivocation it is evident that these cards assist illegals with entry in the US, help them to obtain residency and other benefits. How long before they are voting as aliens to corrupt the election process? Remember the first rule of human nature in politically correct America: If it is possible to happen, at some point it will happen. I suspect that incidences have already occurred and have been covered up for now until the practice is so widespread that it will no longer need be.

Rep. Tom Tancredo [R-CO], seeking the Republican nomination for President in 2008, has introduced legislation to curb the deceptions caused by use of the matricula. News on illegal alien legislation and related matters are found on his blog.

As I write this four-part exposé, The US Senate and President Bush have worked out a so-called compromise on the border and "immigration reform". Congressmen Tancredo and Brian Bray [R-CA] say that despite its wording it is a virtual "amnesty" program for millions of illegals, so similar to the 1986 program that it, if passed by Congress will guarantee more border meltdown. Knowing how Washington insiders operate this "compromise" will either stall until the next election when the Dems hope to control everything but the Supreme Court and then pass their preferred open border give-away or it will pass and then be overturned for a more sweeping measure, same scenario.

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"In one of the largest operations, smugglers were indicted for bringing in at least 11 tractor-trailer loads of aliens between 1999 and 2002, receiving about $1,500 for each alien. Drugs, prostitutes and money were used to entice the drivers into using their 18-wheelers to haul the human cargo. Their last trip was deadly. The aliens were loaded into the trailer with little water and no food. In the intense heat, many suffered hallucinations and lost consciousness and two died.

"In Brownsville, Texas, three men pleaded guilty to another alien-smuggling ring that transported three truckloads of 30 people a day from Mexico to Houston, where people were hidden in houses until they could be shipped farther north. Western Union receipts showed that the smugglers raked in more than $5 million for their racket, which went on for years.

"A school bus mechanic was arrested in Syracuse on charges he tried to smuggle 15 Chinese nationals across the St. Lawrence River from Canada. The families had paid international smugglers between $15,000 and $40,000 for safe passage to the United States.

"Iraqi native George Tajirian ran a smuggling ring, charging $15,000 per head, from all over the world importing more than 1,000 Middle Eastern aliens. Two men from Pakistan and Sri Lanka were arrested in Miami on charges that they smuggled Middle Easterners into the U.S. for $20,000 each."

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"It should be no surprise that the combination of clusters of illegal aliens and the persistence of illegal drugs has increased the crime rate. Phoenix police report that 60% of the homicides involve Mexicans mixed up in smuggling both drugs and people. Tucson's crime rate has grown 12 times the national average, and a vehicle is stolen in Arizona every 10 minutes.

"City gangs are a big problem in many states, and gangs have invaded the suburbs, too. The worst city gang is thought to be MS-13, a ruthless Salvadoran gang that has spread to at least 28 states including Massachusetts. Gangs from Mexico have been reported burglarizing stopped trains. About a dozen railroad bandits ambushed two FBI agents in New Mexico, kicking and beating them with rocks until they were in critical condition.

"The deserts and the national parks have become favorite routes for the entry of illegal aliens. Last year, 200,000 illegal aliens were caught sneaking into our country through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona, and 700,000 pounds of illegal drugs were intercepted.

"National Park Service ranger Kris Eggle was stationed there last August 9. Two armed Mexicans, who had killed four men in a murder spree over drugs, crossed into the Arizona state park. Three border patrol agents including Kris Eggle responded. One fugitive was captured but the other fled, and Kris Eggle, who had been a cross country runner, gave chase. Eggle was shot below his bullet-proof vest and died in an ambulance.

"Where is any media or public outrage over this murder by an illegal alien on U.S. territory? Congressman Tom Tancredo called the incident 'the latest example of a border gone wild.' " [Eagle Forum website---see above.]

This is insanity! Common sense tells us that if a country loses control of its borders, squatters' rights under the common law take precedence. This is a practice in real estate law where squatters who are unchallenged in their egress onto private property over a period of twenty years in most locales, are granted right of way legally. It is the property owner who must exercise due diligence. The same with a country. I am only surprised some clever lawyer's group has not brought such a case to the liberal federal court in the 9th district.

Why can we not control our destiny by controlling our borders? It is often said, and thus has come to be believed---the repeated big lie syndrome---that "we cannot stop the tide at the border. That we cannot deport millions of illegals every year." Well, I say, why not? After all, does not Mexico do precisely this, in reverse order? I mean, how can a developing, still Third World country such as Mexico manage to export millions of their nationals with a mere wink so as to have them take advantage of our laws and economy, to send a portion back to Mexico as untaxed income, but with all our resources we can't re-export or deport the same number? We can, of course, but the elites who hold the reins of power don't want to. The Democrats hope to increase their base by encouraging Hispanics from the Mexican-Guatemala region, who tend to vote Democratic. The Republicans are wimps. It is somewhat more complicated than this, but this is it at the heart of the matter: more complex---because it takes no effort and no staff to encourage people to leave a country by letting them stagnate in misery; but it takes a large enforcement apparatus to round up illegals and so forth. Thus they are not equivalent situations. But certainly we ought to be able to crack down on "sanctuary cities" and employers who knowingly hire illegals. It isn't perfect but combined with a secure wall, maintained and patrolled, the flood of illegals will dwindle to what should be a manageable size.

In a scathing indictment of the dire peril our leaders and elected officials have placed our country in, The New American Special Report of 2007 had this to say:

"In truth, proclamations that the Bush administration is trying to secure our borders just don't stand up to the facts. He promised to send the National Guard to the border. In actuality, on the front lines, this effort amounted to a handful of unarmed men. He promised to give support to our Border Patrol agents, yet federal prosecutors have made Border Patrol agents fear doing their jobs by prosecuting Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean for shooting and wounding a Mexican drug smuggler. Congress, too, has failed, delaying the release of funds to build a border fence." [p. 25.]

Why?

Jerome Corsi, a scholarly contributor to WorldNetDaily and Human Events, answers: "Because he plans to abolish our borders anyway. And he plans to abolish the United States and in its place erect a North American Union composed of Canada, the United States and Mexico!"---The website, United Patriots of America.

And Congress favors it by and large.

Let's look at some background briefly, our source TNA Special Report:

President Bush and his White House predecessors have not defended our border sovereignty, even while U.S. troops do so for the borders of Iraq and South Korea because they want large waves illegals to continue, albeit in the form of making illegals legal. Bush continues to push amnesty for millions of illegal aliens under various schemes. Reason tells us there has to be a reason. "But why would President Bush and his Republican and Democrat cohorts want millions of illegal immigrants here when American taxpayers, in the most indebted nation in the world, need to subsidize the immigrants' mere existence in the form of food vouchers, free health care, tax credits, and higher car insurance costs---among others---for them to be able to afford to even live in the country?" [p. 26.]

The prevailing voices, hardly real wisdom, repeat over and over that by "allowing them in is about helping businesses compete financially in the global economy. In fact, societal costs incurred through immigration are passed on to businesses in the form of taxes and fees that make the overall cost of doing business more expensive and that make the country less competitive on the global level. The result is lost jobs." [Ibid.]

According to the Center for Immigration Studies [CIS], in 2002 "households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government . . . and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household." CIS also estimated that if an amnesty were enacted in 2002, "the net fiscal deficit [at the federal level] would grow to nearly $29 billion per year."

TNA: "This anticipated increase would occur even though the legalized persons would pay increased taxes because they would also heavily use services---likely increasing the net annual fiscal deficit "from $2,736 to $7,668 per household.

"The aforementioned estimates were made in 2002 when the approximate number of illegal immigrants was 8.7 million; it's now about 12 million. The estimated billions actually understate the problem. They ignore costs that, when included, have been estimated to bring the price tag of immigrants to above $100 billion a year. For instance, the numbers don't include future Social Security payments to the immigrants, nor do they include state-and county-level welfare costs, or outlays for education and controlling and investigating immigrant crime. They also do not include the increased costs created because of all the hundreds of thousands of Americans whom immigrants put out of work." [Ibid.]

fait accompli

Prison Planet's website

Bilderberg

Bush 'super-state' agenda to create American Union" by Paul Watson and Alex Jones. Here is a small portion of that article:

"The open plan to merge the US with Mexico and Canada and create a Pan American Union networked by a NAFTA Super Highway has long been a Globalist brainchild but its very real and prescient implementation on behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations has finally been reported on by mainstream news outlets.

"After nearly ten years of reporting by Alex Jones and the rest of the Patriot Movement, the establishment press is finally covering serious reports on the plan for a Pan-American Union, based on recent articles by Human Events columnist Jerome Corsi.

"World Net Daily reports, 'The White House has established working groups, under the North American Free Trade Agreement office in the Department of Commerce, to implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, signed by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005.'

"The article even carries the admission that the Council on Foreign Relations, often the bane of sophomoric stereotypical caricatures of paranoid conspiracy theorists, played a fundamental role in crafting the policy for the homogenization of the US, Canada and Mexico.

"Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force report, which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a North American union that would merge the US, Canada and Mexico into a new governmental form."

4. The Path from NAFTA to NAU [North American Union].

VIEW MAP OF THE PLANNED NORTH AMERICAN UNION CORRIDORS

The TNA Special Report's best article is probably the one by William Jasper, titled, "From NAFTA to the NAU". While decrying the loss of American jobs decreed by NAFTA, the author's chief concern is the North American Union or NAU:

"The NAFTA agreements were setting in motion an ongoing process that would incrementally shift powers and jurisdiction from our national, state, and local governments to new regional institutions. NAFTA, we warned, would take policies concerning tariffs, transportation, the environment, labor, and other matters out of the hands of the U.S. Congress and state legislatures and hand them to regional bureaucracies and tribunals. NAFTA threatened to take away not only our jobs and manufacturing base, but our Constitution, our sovereignty, and our freedom.

"Now, more than 13 years later, this NAFTA threat has become too obvious to ignore. Yet, except for CNN's Lou Dobbs, virtually all of the major media are ignoring it completely. [Emphasis added.] On his June 21, 2006 broadcast, one of many segments exposing this mounting danger, Lou Dobbs noted, 'The Bush administration's open-borders policy and its decision to ignore the enforcement of this country's immigration laws is part of a broader agenda.' Mr. Dobbs went on to charge that in setting up the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) with Mexico and Canada, 'President Bush signed a formal agreement that will end the United States as we know it, and he took the step without approval from either the U.S. Congress or the people of the United States.' "

So much for FOX News "looking out for us" or providing "fair and balance, so we can decide". Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of FOX News Channel, is a self-styled libertarian who says that doing business with the Chinese communist regime does not contradict his conservative political views. He is known to have ingratiated himself with Beijing, which he dismisses by insisting "I don't think there are many communists left in China."

Murdoch also announced that he is now part of the global "warming" crowd, firmly convinced it is a real threat, although there as many scientists who do not support the dire predictions as there are who do. Watch for FOX News to push this agenda even more than it does now, although the channel claims Murdoch does not dictate content. Perhaps not, but somehow the "warming" myth has been filtering down into content, especially with Bill O'Reilly. Environmental dictates are part of world government, no coincidence, but this is beyond the scope of this presentation.

Murdoch is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, which is one of the masterminds of the New World Order government. He attended the Bilderberg Meeting at Rottach-Egern, Germany in 2005. The Jeremiah Project website that tracks the New World Order among other serious problems exposes the Bilderbergers as:

"The Bilderbergers meet in secluded places, arrogantly plotting the subversion and silent takeover of constitutional governments everywhere. Their goal is a World Government run exclusively by their hand-picked puppets.

"Shrewd and calculating, their hearts are filled with lust for power and consumed by greed for money. Rich and aristocratic, they despise Christians and they loathe the lowly working class. They control the world's press and virtually all our banks and financial institutions. They screen and choose who America's leaders will be and even determine who will run on the Democratic and Republican Party tickets. It was shortly after attending the 1991 Bilderberger meeting, Governor Bill Clinton was selected to be the next President of the United States."

Mr. Jasper, of The New American, getting back to the NAFTA agenda, then asks "What is this 'broader agenda' to which Mr. Dobbs referred? Will it really 'end the United States as we know it'? Long before NAFTA was passed by Congress in November 1993, it was obvious to careful political observers that the so- called trade agreement was much more than a 'trade agreement.' No less a leading light of America's foreign-policy establishment than former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger confirmed NAFTA critics' worst fears in an important op-ed several months earlier." [pp. 28-29.]

Writing in the Los Angeles Times on July 18, 1993, [reported on the website, Conservative Truth] Kissinger said:

"[NAFTA] will represent the most creative step toward a new world order taken by any group of countries since the end of the Cold War." NAFTA "is not a conventional trade agreement, but the architecture of a new international system."

Precisely. Frighteningly.

Mr. Jasper informs us further:

"A number of other similar admissions surfaced around the same time. Pro-NAFTA author William Orme, for instance, wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post acknowledging the larger agenda. When NAFTA was first proposed, he wrote: [Taken from the Prison Planet website.]

" 'Critics in all three countries in all three countries claimed that its hidden agenda was the development of a European-style common market. And they were right . . ."

Prison Planet goes on:

"Didn't Europe also start out with a limited free trade area? And, given the Brussels precedent, wouldn't this mean ceding some measure of sovereignty to unelected bureaucrats? Even worse, would this lead to liberalization and collaborative policy making in many other sensitive areas, from monetary policy and immigration to labor and environmental law?

"NAFTA's defenders said no. They argued that the agreement is designed to dismantle trade barriers, not build a new regulatory bureaucracy. NAFTA, declared one congressional backer, 'is a trade agreement, not an act of economic union.'

"Yet the critics were essentially right. NAFTA lays the foundation for a continental common market, as many of its architects privately acknowledge. Part of this foundation, inevitably, is bureaucratic: The agreement creates a variety of continental institutions---ranging from trade dispute panels to labor and environmental commissions---that are, in aggregate, an embryonic NAFTA government."

TNA's William Jasper adds:

"Also alarming is the fact that this entire shadowy process is being heavily influenced by---if not directed outright by---powerful private organizations that are unaccountable to the American people." [p. 31.]

Jasper reveals what the media does not, about such organizations, one of which is the North American Forum, an annual meeting of US, Canadian and Mexican government and business representatives to discuss issues related to continental economic and social integration. The Forum is chaired jointly by former U.S. secretary of state George Shultz, former Mexican finance minister Pedro Aspe, and former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed.

The website, Wickipedia has this to say about the Forum:

"The inaugural North American Forum took place in October 2005 in Sonoma, California. Though it brought together a wide range of public officials from all three countries, the proceedings and guest list were kept secret. An October 27, 2005 article in the Financial Post contained a partial list of invited guests, which included former Canadian finance minister John Manley, Mexican ambassador to the U.S. Carlos de Icaza, Chevron CEO David O'Reilly, former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey, and a host of U.S. policy advisors to President George W. Bush.

"The 2006 North American Forum took place from September 12 to 14 at the Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, Canada. It was hosted by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives with help from the Canada West Foundation. Under the title, Continental Prosperity in the New Security Environment, the Forum included sessions on "North American Energy Strategy," "Demographic and Social Dimensions of North American Integration," and "Border Infrastructure," among other topics."

Think about this, border infrastructure? Should not a country's border be the business of the country and not its neighbors. Unless, there is another agenda---the blending or paving over of the borders.

Wikipedia goes on:

"Similar discussions regularly take place among North American government and business representatives through the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. And in a speech to the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance on October 10, 2006, U.S. Consul General John Nay referred to the North American Forum as a "sister organization" and "parallel structure" to the SPP. But as in 2005, the 2006 Forum was not announced to the public or the media and there is no official account of the proceedings." [Emphasis added.]

This backs up the Jasper account, which included Judicial Watch's vigilance report which acquired some of the goings on of this secret meeting. Wickipedia says that there was a leak from the Canadian quarters. But Judicial Watch was able to obtain its information by using the Freedom of Information Act filings. That word, "stealth" comes up again and again, as it did here, and I cite from Jasper, emphasis added:

"Especially troubling is the admission against interest in the minutes that these elites are trying to engineer public support for their North American Union merger plan 'by stealth.'

"This admission surfaced in a panel moderated by Canada's former Deputy Prime Minister John Manley entitled 'Border Infrastructure and Continental Prosperity.' The panel minutes noted the need for secrecy, stating: 'While a [North American] vision is appealing, working on the infrastructure might yield more benefit and bring more people on board ("evolution by stealth.")' The parenthetical 'evolution by stealth' was in the original quote.

"This is not anything new. The main private organization providing the intellectual brain power for the Banff conference, as well as the SPP in general, is the Council on Foreign Relations [CFR]. Before President Bush announced the formation of the SPP at his Waco summit, the CFR had already delivered the blueprint for the project, a report entitled Creating a North American Community. It is virtually indistinguishable from what the Bush administration is implementing. The report was produced by a special task force of experts from the CFR. The U.S. vice chairman of the task force, Professor Robert Pastor of American University, is generally regarded as the principal author of the report. Dr. Pastor, who was also a key adviser to President Clinton on NAFTA, has been at the forefront of the push to transform NAFTA, through "deep integration," into an EU-style regional government. The CFR publicly insists that is not its intention. 'A new North American community will not be modeled on the European Union or the European Commission, nor will it aim at the creation of any sort of vast supranational bureaucracy,' its task-force report declares.

"However, those are precisely the kind of denials that the CFR's counterparts in Europe gave to the public all the while they worked in secret to scuttle national sovereignty and build the EU super-state. It has only been in recent years that some of the records have surfaced revealing the colossal deceptions engaged in by these European Union insiders. Two of the key operatives during the EU's founding period of the 1950s were French Prime Minister Robert Schuman and French Planning Minister Jean Monnet, both ardent socialists.

"It is noteworthy that Dr. Pastor, often referred to as the 'father' of the SPP and the North American Union, presented one of his most detailed essays on North American 'integration' in the June 2005 'Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series,' a joint project of the Jean Monnet Chair of the University of Miami and the Miami European Union Center. The Pastor essay says on its cover page: 'This publication is sponsored by the EU Commission.'

"At the very beginning of his essay, Pastor acknowledges that NAFTA 'can be considered a kind of draft constitution for an emerging region,' and all but baldly admits that he can hardly wait until it completely replaces our U.S. Constitution. He is especially eager to create new continental institutions that will have real power to sweep aside what he derides as our 'aging conception of sovereignty.'

" 'Sovereignty, in brief,' says Pastor, 'is a misleading if not a mistaken defense against an increasingly open and integrated world.' He rhetorically asks: 'Are the three governments prepared to give up their sovereignty for a wider community?' The institutions to which he proposes the countries give up their sovereignty include a North American Advisory Council, a North American Council, a North American Parliamentary Group, a Permanent Court on Trade and Investment, and a North American Customs and Immigration Force---just for starters.

"It is important to realize that Dr. Pastor is not just some balmy ivory-towered professor; he is one of the leading architects of the drive for continental, and then hemispheric, union. The plans he helps draft in elite private circles soon are implemented as official government policy. He was one of the leading participants at the above-mentioned secret meeting in Banff.

BIG THREE "What is unmistakably clear---from the SPP documents thus far available and the visible actions and programs the Bush administration has already initiated---is that the SPP is a fast-track project aimed at bringing about full economic and political merger of the NAFTA countries into a North American Union (NAU), modeled after the EU.

"Lou Dobbs has rightly called it 'an absolute
contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value.' It is also clear that the 'deep integration' SPP/NAU system Pastor and his cohorts envision cannot come to fruition without ultimately abolishing and replacing the constitutional system under which we now live.

"It's time to act."

The above paragraphs by W. Jasper are taken from TNA Special Report, pp. 32-33.]

I pose this question, which must be asked until it is answered without equivocation: The EU has its own coin of the realm the EURO dollar. Will the NAU have its own, too, say the PESU? Will the exchange reduce the middle class further?

And did you know that NAFTA provides for special courts? No? Read on.

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