CAFTA might be voted on tonight. Tom DeLay predicts it will pass, Reuters reports.

The agreement is 2400 pages long, and Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) discussed just one part of it in "CAFTA undermines immigration laws":

...What those provisions mean is that a foreign company would be empowered under CAFTA to challenge the validity of our immigration laws. If an international tribunal rules against us, Congress would then be forced to change our immigration laws or face international trade sanctions. These tribunals have the authority to rule that U.S. immigration limits, visa requirements, or even licensing requirements and zoning rules are "unnecessary burdens to trade" that act as "restrictions on the supply of a service."

This hidden legislation to open the U.S. border is only the beginning...

Please send a free FAX to your representatives and urge them to vote no. Less effectively, you can send an email here.

See also FAIR's Statement Regarding Proposed CAFTA Treaty, CAFTA: More Bureaucracy, Less Free Trade, CAFTA Should Be Rejected Just Like The EU Constitution, CAFTA Guts All "Buy American" Laws: A New Green Light for Outsourcing, and "Hidden in the 2,400 pages of CAFTA". More links here.