Proposed
Whereas, the Constitution of the United States has given the people of the United States of America and the States the greatest liberty, prosperity, and security in the world;
Whereas, it is the duty of the people of the State of Nevada and their elected representatives, the Legislators of the State of Nevada, to Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States of America;
Whereas, the sovereignty and independence of the United States and the individual states are being jeopardized by the formation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, between Mexico, Canada and the United States known as the North American Union;
Whereas, the President of the United States, the Premier of Canada and the President of Mexico met for a Summit in Crawford, Texas on March 23, 2005 and announced at Baylor University in Waco, Texas an agreement to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP);
Whereas, the elected Representatives of the people and the States, the United States House of Representatives and Senate have been entirely circumvented while the process of forming the Security and Prosperity Partnership moves forward to integrate and harmonize our laws and our economy with Mexico and Canada by 2010 jeopardizing the sovereignty of our state and nation;
Whereas, the US House of Representatives Concurrent Resolution 40 expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should not enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada and that they should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System;
Whereas, the United States Departments of State, Commerce, and Homeland Security are participating in the formation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), designed, among other things to facilitate common regulatory schemes between Mexico, Canada and the United States of America;
Whereas, reports issued by the SPP indicate that is has implemented regulatory changes among the countries that circumvented United States trade, transportation, homeland security, and border security functions and that the SPP will continue to do so in the future;
Whereas, the actions taken by the SPP to coordinate border security have moved towards open borders making the United States less secure and more subject to the threat of terrorism;
Whereas, former President Regan said, “A nation without borders is no nation at all.”
Whereas, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, United States trade deficits with Mexico and Canada have significantly increased since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Whereas, the economic and physical security of the United States, the State of Nevada, and the people of the State of Nevada are harmed by the potential loss of control of our borders and courts attendant to the full operation of NAFTA and the SPP;
Whereas, the NAFTA Superhighway System from the west coast of Mexico through the United States and into Canada has been suggested as a part of a North American Union to facilitate trade between the SPP countries;
Whereas, the Senate of the State of Texas and the House of Representatives have voted to block the Trans-Texas Corridor of the NAFTA Superhighway some 4 football fields wide, placing a moratorium on all public-private partnerships that would involve the construction of new toll roads financed and operated by private foreign investment groups with the taking by eminent domain of some 584,000 acres of privately owned property at the cost of $184 billion;
Whereas, unrestricted foreign trucking under NAFTA into the United States does pose a safety hazard due to inadequate maintenance, inspection and insurance, and can act collaterally as a conduit for the entry into the United States of illegal drugs, illegal human smuggling, and terrorist activities;
Whereas, because of NAFTA and the NAFTA Superhighway every American truck driver’s job is at risk. American drivers wages will be undermined and/or they will lose their jobs to Mexican drivers and Mexican trucking companies creating severe economic hardship impacting all the citizens of Nevada and the United States of America;
RESOLVED that the Independent American Party of Nevada expresses strong disapproval of the Security and Prosperity Partnership—the North American Union and the NAFTA Superhighway;
RESOLVED that the Independent American Party urge the President and Congress of the United States to withdraw the United States of America from any further participation in the Security and Prosperity Partnership, and any efforts to erode American sovereignty through any form of a North American Union, and to oppose construction of the a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System.