[QUOTE="MeanQuestion"][QUOTE="ElectronicMagic"] [QUOTE="MeanQuestion"]
1. I don't see how relaxing border security is necessarily part of forming a Union.
2. The corruption won't spread out of the country, and, if anything, having the US and Canada watching from afar will reduce it.
3. Having a nearby 3rd world country with lower tarrifs to exploit will help our economy, giving us some deeply needed help competing with Europe and developing countries in Asia.
4. Doing business with third world countries strenghtens their economy, which reduces poverty and corruption. So we'd be doing Mexico a favor too.
Its just not a big deal.
ElectronicMagic
1. It's just what would happen, it's a great way to get rid of the border issue. They already have a plan to some day implement it, without even having a North American Union. It's so that all security would be handled as if one country and not three. All the way down to not having to use a passport to cross borders between the United States, Canada and Mexico.
3. Mexico's economy is so bad that all it would do is bring the other two countries economies down, with Canada and America having to flip the bill for Mexico without them contributing anything like the other two are.
1. Could you provide some links about pending legislation regarding that (from sources generally accepted as reliable, if possible)
3. Flip the bill for Mexico? What bill and have you taken a look at the national debt lately?
I never said that there was any legislation, there is just theoretical strategies that the people in charge of further integrating the United States, Canada and Mexico have. Yes, flip the bill for Mexico, Mexico is a third world country, they have a terrible economy that would cause our's and Canada's to drag further. The United States economy isn't the greatest, but it has potential to right itself, the Mexican economy has a lesser chance of righting itself.
Well if there's no legislation I don't think you have anything to worry about. Considering how the borders and national security were issues in the current election, I highly doubt the current administration and the people would be ready to support such a proposal in the near future.
Whether or not having open borders would be a good idea (and there are good arguments for and against it) just doesn't seem relevent enough to be worth considering at this point.
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