Signs of hope: there are significant signs that an aroused and knowledgeable populace can defeat efforts to merge the United States with Canada and Mexico.(SPECIAL REPORT: ON THE FRONT LINES)

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State and national legislators are beginning to slow down the drive toward the North American Union. They are responding to alarmed American citizens who are increasingly connecting the dots between stagnant incomes, job losses, North American integration, open borders, "free trade," and globalization.

Signs of Hope in 2007

While the Bush administration and prominent members of non-governmental organizations are straining to establish by 2010 a "North American economic and security community," popularly known as the North American Union (NAU) the American people are beginning to rise up in sufficient numbers to force state and national legislators to block key components of the NAU merger. Below are five examples.

* Support grows in Congress for Rep. Goode's anti-NAU resolution: On January 22, 2007 Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) introduced House Concurrent Resolution 40 in the U.S. House of Representatives "expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada." As of September 19 this resolution had 32 cosponsors. Due to increasing constituent awareness about the North American Union, support for Goode's resolution is still growing. Five new cosponsors added their names in the first 19 days of September alone.

* The Senate abandons the Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill: As documented in "Myth vs. Fact" on pages 22-23, a major goal of the NAU merger process is to "lay the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America" by 2010. The groundwork for this freer flow of people within North America has actually been under construction since passage of the 1986 immigration law providing amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.

During the last three years, the Senate has led the way toward open borders by passing comprehensive immigration (read amnesty and temporary-worker) bills, while the House has refused to go along and instead insisted on passing bills to improve border security.