Keep US independent! Most Americans would oppose the Free Trade Area of the Americas if they understood the threat, which is why the FTAA's promoters must rely on deception.(Cover Story)

Imagine a not-too-distant future in which America's borders have become obsolete. Customs and border controls no longer exist. The former boundaries of the United States are merely registration stations for throngs of migrant workers, criminal fugitives, narcotics traffickers and even terrorists entering the country from Latin America and beyond, via Canada and Mexico.

In this gloomy future, most American factories are shuttered and the American manufacturing sector has relocated to Central and South America, where wages are far cheaper and workers are willing to work for much longer hours. The American economy, meanwhile, consists largely of service-sector jobs. ...