-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/22/174255.shtml Magazine Suggests U.S.-Mexican Border Should Morph Into a Separate Country NewsMax.com Tuesday, July 24, 2001 In recent years, immigrant groups and globalists have been calling for the abolition of the U.S.-Mexican border -- and its replacement by a border "zone" -- an autonomous area as wide as 100 miles on either side of the current border. Such advocates have argued that this zone would also have its own government -- separate from Washington and Mexico City. This idea of a "third nation" straddling the U.S.-Mexican border is not to scoffed at. In early July the respected Economist magazine featured a lengthy article calling for just that -- an autonomous zone between the two countries. >From San Diego/Tijuana on the west to Brownsville/Matamoros on the east, a strange >new nation has been born along the U.S.-Mexican border, the Economist argues. There's something like a Third World nation developing immediately south of the border, and it is drawing U.S. cities north of the border into its orbit and its problems. In a wide-ranging special report on the cross-border phenomenon, the Economist declares that "Thinking of the border as a separate country makes some kind of sense." And, The Economist notes, it would make a strange country; "At the Western end it is half-Anglo and at the other almost totally Hispanic. It is richer than Mexico, poorer than the United States, but booming." The genesis of this new country is NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Companies, mostly foreign-owned, hot on the trail to cash in on the agreement's looser trade restrictions raced to the border areas in Mexico and built plants to turn out duty-free goods and hired Mexican workers. >From all over Mexico workers poured into the border towns, eager to earn wages >unavailable to them at home. So many migrated to the border area in the past 10 years >that the population soared 30 percent. And along with the prosperity the new jobs >created, they brought the problems that always plague boom towns that spring up where >there was little previously. Because of the rapid growth, the cities and towns have been unable to keep up with the population and cannot provide the services the hordes of new residents need. They cannot provide electricity, roads, schools or housing. Crime rates have shot up and many of the areas now risk running out of water over the next 20 years or so. Workers and their families often live in ramshackle houses they put together with junk materials. The south's problems inevitably hit the cities immediately to the north, and both sides grapple with their problems under the handicap of having to go to their distant national capitals to deal with joint issues. The emergence of the new border megalopolis has put a crimp in the United States' influx of illegal aliens. The Economist points out that although some 300,000 Mexicans cross the border every year, in 1997 671,000 Mexicans came north from all over Mexico to stay and work south of the border. The new factories that draw this mass migration, known locally as "maquiladoras," produce goods duty free for export, principally to the United States. As of now, more than a million workers have flooded into the area to work in the plants, boosting the population by a dizzying 150 percent since 1990. Housing and water are among the worst problems. Disposal of toxic wastes from the factories is another. Drugs are widespread - and cheap: A dose of crystalline methamphetamine costs a mere $2.20, a shot of heroin about $5. Service in cities north of the border are being overtaxed by the population boom to the south. All of these problems affect the U.S. border cities. Attempts to work jointly with their neighbors south of the border have been largely stymied because every cross-border matter is an international matter and must be handled by the two national governments. The Economist cites one example of this quandary. "El Paso's firemen once responded to an emergency in Ciudad Juarez, only to realize that their life insurance did not cover them across the border." "It is a shame, for a poor and a rich country side by side have some great opportunities for collaboration," The Economist noted. "For example, Tijuana and San Diego both need new aqueducts to bring water from the east. 'They should build one together on Mexican land, with Mexican labor and American financing,' Charles Nathanson, a San Diego think tank executive, told The Economist. 'But the politics make it very complicated.'" Mexico has taken a step toward solving that political problem. Vicente Fox has created the post of border commissioner, who is authorized to deal with the border problems, but solutions are still a long way off. But the Economist makes plain what the globalists want: an end to America's clearly demarcated border and the creation of a new country outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. government. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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