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Merging U.S. With Mexico
BY:
Nick Ivanovich
Board of
Directors
Constitution Party
of Missouri President Bush’s
open borders policy is a defacto merger with Mexico. Is it a quest for white sandy beaches or
cheap labor? There has never been a public call for annexing Mexico, and conversely Congress has funded
legislation to secure the border.
Despite a voter rebellion last summer that
closed the capitol switchboard in opposition to his Guest Worker/Amnesty
bill, Bush continues to unlawfully flood the country with low wage
workers, allowing an estimated ten thousand illegals to enter the country
daily. Since 9/11 Americans citizens are screened, scanned and
photographed, but foreigners who illegally enter our country, apparently
pose no threat to Bush’s Homeland Security.
No one checks them for disease, weapons, bombs or drugs. Bush’s open
invitation to terrorists, coupled with his malicious intimidation and
jailing of diligent border patrol guards, should be a call for impeachment
hearings far surpassing concern for Clinton's oval office escapades. The
refusal by leaders of either Party to hold Bush accountable is indication
of corruption at the highest levels.
Mexicans leave home because they can no
longer make a living in their own country. The reduced standard of living
in Mexico is the result of years of corruption.
Elites, aided by government, have created an impoverished, working class.
NAFTA, a free
trade agreement passed by Congress, made that cheap labor available to
American investors. NAFTA had no
provisions for workers to freely organize or expect a living wage. The
peso was devalued by 50% making the cost of Mexican labor even cheaper. In
spite of NAFTA's
outsourcing of U.S. jobs, and flooding our stores with products
made in Mexico, poverty in Mexico is increasing.
The companies that left the U.S. due to NAFTA provided
decent wages for low-skilled workers. Mexicans who illegally cross our
border looking for work are in direct competition with low skilled
Americans at a time when the number of good paying jobs is diminishing.
Flooding the country with cheap labor, as the country is facing recession,
may be welcomed by unscrupulous employers, but it is devastating to the
wages of workers.
Bush and other globalists who believe in the
unfettered free flow of capital, goods and labor, across all borders,
place the profits of global corporations above this country’s standard of
living; our environment, food safety, and labor laws; even our right to
secure borders which define our nation. They put American workers in
competition with foreign products made under deplorable conditions, in
countries ruled by despots, where workers have no benefits or rights.
Mexico, communist China and still communist Vietnam are but a few examples. The benefit, they
say, is cheaper products.
America abolished slavery long ago. We reject the
concept of elevating our standard of living by surrounding ourselves
with products made from the labor of oppressed, impoverished workers. Our
efforts since our founding have resulted in a nation that is not simply a
‘market’, but rather a landmark of individual freedom and opportunity
unprecedented in the world. We the citizen owners of this Republic
are more than mere ‘consumers’. We are
inheritors of a prosperous nation where all citizens have an opportunity
to partake in its benefits. The pride we share in our
American Dream, is the opportunity for every individual to achieve his or her own goals in life,
through personal effort with rights protected by government. Contrary to the thinking of free trade
advocates, capitalism is our economic means, not our ideology. It was
never meant to sabotage our Constitution.
Those who would erase our borders fail to
understand that America’s heroes are motivated by determination to
preserve our freedom, not to destroy it for the economic wellbeing of
foreigners and global expatriates. We now are facing an election in which
Democrat and Republican Presidential nominees of both parties are open
border advocates, on record, for advocating and voting for more free
trade, and for increasing illegal immigration through more Amnesty. Their
advisors are well known globalists. Ironically, globalization has never
been an election topic for debate. Yet, this corrosive ideology is at the
core of our problems in America today. This public discourse should occur
before we commit ourselves to four more years of authoritarian rule.
Lastly, most voters are realizing that too
many members of Congress have become less interested in preserving the
rights of U.S. citizens and U.S. sovereignty and more concerned with
enhancing the bottom lines of their global corporate contributors. The
public’s anger and frustration is giving rise to an unprecedented third
party opportunity.
With their support, the Constitution Party is
committed to preserving our Constitution by running a strong field of
patriotic candidates, all determined to bring about a rapid retirement of
those corruptors in Washington. |
