"We are moving to end the old ‘Catch And Release’ style of border enforcement, increasing removals by tens of thousands a year."—Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 18.

Secretary Chertoff’s co-opting of the term "Catch And Release" is more evidence that the Bush Administration has no interest in enforcing immigration laws away from the borderlands. It’s really only interested in its "Temporary Worker Program" a.k.a amnesty. Thus Chertoff also said:

"The comprehensive approach we have taken to removal can be applied more broadly to other aspects of border and interior enforcement. In that sense, what we are doing in our removal efforts is simply a down payment on our overall border enforcement initiative, which we are designing as a complement to the President’s Temporary Worker Program."

And here’s what I think is the underlying reason why America’s immigration law enforcement is in shambles, with its deportation system remaining inexplicably paralyzed by federal litigation and rigged in favor of relief from removal.

Internationalists in the Bush and Clinton Administrations have decided to confine immigration enforcement only to the U.S. borderlands…until there’s no enforcement at all, because the U.S., Mexico and Canada will have been merged into one unit behind a new "North American security perimeter."

This shared Canada-U.S-Mexico "security perimeter" is exactly what the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America has in mind for America someday.

And wouldn’t you know . . . DHS Secretary Chertoff himself is a signer of the SPP’s report to leaders [PDF report] on the New "North American" Order for Security and Prosperity Partnership.

And the SPP just so happens to be a dead ringer for step numero uno toward goals outlined in the Building a North American Community report [PDF] by the ubiquitous Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

The CFR's Building a North American Community report was signed without dissent by the former chief immigration law enforcement officer of the U.S.—the Clinton Administration’s Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner—Doris M. Meissner.

Read the reports side by side for yourself [SPP report] [CFR report] and find out what the internationalist cabal has planned for America.

So who cares if there’s no interior immigration law enforcement in the United States, as long as there’s a "North American security perimeter" in the works for what former California Governor Gray Davis called the "magnificent region" that a merged U.S. and Mexico would comprise?

This may sound shocking—but remember, the same sort of elite consensus hornswoggled the historic nations of Europe into the "European Union."

And after all, under the Chertoff-Meissner plan, aren’t we all North Americans now?

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