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Title: 'Rep. Tancredo: Bush Wants To Merge U.S. With Mexico and Canada'
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Think Progress
URL Source: http://thinkprogress.org/
Published: Nov 24, 2006
Author: Tom Tancredo
Post Date: 2006-11-24 17:40:49 by Zipporah
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Views: 202
Comments: 12
Rep. Tancredo: Bush Wants To Merge U.S. With Mexico and Canada Tancredo lashed out at the White House’s lack of action in securing U.S. borders, and said efforts to merge the U.S. with both Mexico and Canada is not a fantasy. “I know this is dramatic — or maybe somebody would say overly dramatic — but I’m telling you, that everything I see leads me to believe that this whole idea of the North American Union, it’s not something that just is written about by right-wing fringe kooks. It is something in the head of the president of the United States, the president of Mexico, I think the prime minister of Canada buys into it. … You might think the right would immediately repudiate this kind of conspiracy theory. You’d be wrong. The National Review’s Andy McCarthy came to Tancredo’s defense: This is not a fringe. It’s a wave. It’s fine to disagree with Rep. Trancredo; it’s wrong to treat him like a lunatic when he is anything but. [I]t’s not unreasonable for people to look at Bush’s immigration policies and worry that he is insufficiently alert to the internationalist pressures (what John Fonte calls “transnational progressivism”) vigorously challenging the traditional understanding of sovereignty on many fronts. Fox’s Neil Cavuto recently said Tancredo “owns” the issue of immigration predicted that “if he were to run for president, he just might well be president.”
Poster Comment: Of course those at Think Progress believe that Tancredo is a racist..
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), one of the leading voices on immigration for the right, claims President George W. Bush is plotting to merge the U.S. with Mexico and Canada. An excerpt from WorldNetDaily:
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#2. To: Zipporah (#0)
I thought that a union of Canada, Mexico and the US was the ultimate objective that NAFTA was a first step toward. Actually, I thought that the intent was to include most of the Central American banana republics as well. After all, the southern border of Panama is much shorter and more defensible that the US-Mexican border. Population-wise, Mexico through Panama are about 100 million or so, compared with about 300 million for the US, so it is not really overwhelming.
#3. To: Steel (#2)
North American Union's purpose is to meld the 3 nations.. Canadian Action Party says this is bad news for Canada. It spells the end of Canada! Connie Fogal trys to warn Canadians. So people are getting a clue but.. it wont matter..
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