Guest Comment: The real reason for illegals

In recent months there have been several guest commentaries and many letters to the editor about the illegals flooding across the border but none have addressed the root problem, that is until Mary Dagg’s May 21 guest commentary. More recent Richard Calabro wrote about what is really happening to our country.

We have seen the blame placed on misplaced compassion, and even calling the compassionate traitors. At the same time we witness the hiring of illegals all over Arizona and the Southwest and, for that matter, all across the country, replacing legal workers and driving down wages.

The great labor leader Cesar Chavez knew that illegal labor was about and it was suppressing wages, he even went to the border in Yuma to protest the same.

The compassionate liberals who unwittingly support the illegals, are but a symptom of the problem, just as are the patriotic Minutemen.

We witness the Border Patrol chasing illegals up and down the highways and byways and literally into houses, but once the illegals get past an invisible line and find a job, they are mostly free and clear.

When Arizona passed laws to address the problem, the business communities were immediately on a counteroffensive.

As we witness some crackdown on a federal level lately, it has produced great crocodile tears in the business community. On April 25, the AP printed the results of a study commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The study said the crackdown would cost employers $1 billion and those costs are high enough to trigger a federal law [how clever of them to have such a law enacted] that would require HLS to analyze more thoroughly the effects. The argument it seems, is if enforcing the laws of the land costs employers money, they should not be enforced.

The problem with illegals started long before NAFTA but NAFTA was responsible for an increased flow of illegals due to the undermining of small farmers in Mexico by corporate farms and the importation of subsidized food to Mexico by the U.S.

NAFTA was negotiated by the George H W Bush administration, but did not become law until Bill Clinton signed it in 1994. Bill O’Reilly tried to make the claim on Fox News that most Republicans were against NAFTA when, in fact, in the House 132 Republicans voted in favor and 43 opposed. In the Senate, 34 Republicans voted in favor and 10 against. Democrats in the Senate voted against NAFTA 28 to 27; in the House they voted against it 156 to 102.

As it turns out NAFTA is only a step in a much larger policy by our shadow government. NAFTA is the mechanism being used but we are not at the root of the problem yet. Columnist Molly Ivins explains how something so unpatriotic as NAFTA and NAU could be enacted, “you got todance with them what brung ya.”

A lot of these same elected officials who were brought to the dance by lobbyists are talking out of the other side of their mouths as election time rolls around.

The voting record and how each voted on NAFTA can be found at www.senate.gov and www.house.gov or by putting NAFTA voting record in “search.”

In the May 2005 meeting of the the Task Force of the Council on Foreign Relations, a document titled “Building a North American Community” was compiled. “The task force’s central recommendation is, establishment by 2010 of a North American Economic and Security, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter. A seamless North American market, adopting a North American approach to regulation, increasing LABOR MOBILITY.”

Put North American Community in “search.”

Two months prior to the publication of the task force report, George W Bush and his Mexican, Canadian counterparts announced the formation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. Check www.spp.gov

It was at this meeting that George W Bush referred to the Minutemen as vigilantes.

Douglas Freeman in a guest commentary in the Knoxville News quoted David Rockefeller from the Council On Foreign Relations “The supra-national sovereignty of an Intellectual elite and World Bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practical in past centuries”June 1991.

Wow, so this is how democracy works?

From the Council on Foreign Relations Journal, 1974, page 558. “Illegal immigration is not a problem unto itself, but a product of the formation of a New World Order.”

George HW Bush was the first to publicly refer to The New World Order and as this shows the root of the problem goes back far farther than most people are aware. So as it turns out, we the people, at least the majority, think of the illegals as a problem while our shadow government thinks of it as progress. Check out www.oldworderorder.org

At www.citizen.com can be found examples of how NAFTA can, will and does give up sovereignty to all three

The Canadian government banned the importation of MMT, an additive for gasoline. Tests had shown that MMT caused nerve damage. The American company importing the MMT filed suit under NAFTA Chapter 11 seeking $201 million. Canada settled for $13 million and rescinded its law!

The Canadians also found that NAFTA rules gave U.S. corporations water rights to Canadian lakes and streams. We now have elected officials, sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States playing to lobbyists of our shadow government and thereby undermining our Constitution and our sovereignty via NAFTA.

So far, there have 13 billion dollars in suits by companies against the three NAFTA countries. On the horizon we now see the progression from NAFTA to FTAA which will include 31 more countries of the Western Hemisphere to be included in free trade agreements. Will they be free from our laws also?

As election time nears, we see a flurry of activity in pursuing illegals. But don’t get your hopes up, in spite of the show by our government and the public dislike of a North American Union.

On June 16, Robert Gates was in Canada pushing the agenda for a NAU through NAFTA. His speech came under the guise of national security. He attacked Obama for his position on NAFTA.

Even more recently, John McCain was in Canada before a business group, espousing NAFTA to the cheers of the select crowd. Then McCain went to Mexico and Columbia to extol free trade and a “comprehensive” immigration policy, aka, labor mobility.

At the same time McCain was touring Canada, Mexico and Columbia pushing NAFTA, he is trumpeting his patriotism. The fact is those two positions are diametrical, as in two opposites.

If one wonders why Columbia, there is a bill before Congress to make Columbia a free trade partner also. Of course, anyone against any of these, errr, corporate treaties is labeled a protectionist! There is nothing like fair trade but free trade is not in our best interest. It is big business’ best interest.

It seems a couple of Thomas Jefferson quotes describe what we witness happening to our country.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

Second: “Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Carroll Grundhoefer retired after 31 years at ALCOA Warricks Works Newburg, Ind. He has lived for the past 14 years in Arizona —7 in Green Valley. The views expressed are the writer’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of this newspaper.