In a recent article for Human Events Online, Jerome R. Corsi describes the Bush administration's behind the scenes plans to construct a super highway stretching from the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas through the US to southern Canada.

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

As Corsi shows, plans for the super highway are already well-advanced (construction may begin as early as next year). Despite the dramatic nature of the plan, public authorities -- and, first and foremost, the White House -- have done their best to keep the public in the dark about it.

As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.

This gives context to the President's reckless support for the McKennedy guestworker amnesty. Sometime in the mid-nineties, important segments of the policy elite convinced themselves that the future belonged to internally confederated economic regions of the type first established in Europe. The various failures and shortcomings of the European Union -- democratic deficit, bureaucratic excess and a fundamental of lack of political cohesion -- have apparently done nothing to disturb their globalist dream of world power and indefinite growth.

The wonderful thing about the President's plan is that every aspect of it opens the way to new migration and thus further pressure to integrate the three economies. The McKennedy guestworker amnesty, from this point of view, is convenient but not strictly necessary.

After all, putting American immigration policy into the hands of Mexican truck drivers will accomplish the job just as well.