Mexico president urges North American integration after Brexit

Published on 06-28-2016 12:20 AM

Ottawa (AFP) - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday called for greater integration with Canada and the United States in the wake of Britain's vote to split with the European Union.

Nieto, who spoke during a stopover in Quebec City, is scheduled to attend a North American leaders summit in Ottawa on Wednesday with his US and Canadian counterparts.

The three countries are economic partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and work closely on security matters.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexico-pr...200300558.html

52 Comments

Anti Federalist - 06-27-2016, 06:00 PM
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Of course he does.

erowe1 - 06-27-2016, 06:05 PM
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To be fair, so does Ron Paul.

Anti Federalist - 06-27-2016, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by erowe1

To be fair, so does Ron Paul.

Ron Paul is in favor of a massive, unrepresentative, North American State?

News to me...

Anti Federalist - 06-27-2016, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by erowe1

To be fair, so does Ron Paul.

Ron Paul is in favor of a massive, unrepresentative, North American State?

News to me...

Cleaner44 - 06-27-2016, 06:46 PM
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Not interested in merging our nation with the $#@!hole they call Mexico.

puppetmaster - 06-27-2016, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by erowe1

To be fair, so does Ron Paul.

bull$#@!.

timosman - 06-27-2016, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by erowe1

To be fair, so does Ron Paul.

if the open borders advocacy was not enough to earn you a ban, this comment sure does.

alucard13mm - 06-27-2016, 07:33 PM
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Congratulations open border proponents =p. We can become the North American Union in no time. Since we don't care about our borders, we might as well merge with Mexico and even Canada. Hell, Canada would be awesome, they have plenty of water we can transport down to the states .

Double Hell, let's just integrate with the entire south American continent as well :3.. We can be the AMERICAN UNION. AU... Au... GOLD!!!

FindLiberty - 06-27-2016, 07:59 PM
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No way!

And North American integration is not going to qualify the Mexican
President for any special discount on the cost of building the Trump Wall.

Anti Federalist - 06-27-2016, 08:19 PM
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Doesn't sound to me like he's in favor of it:

“Once again, decisions that affect millions of Americans are not being made by those Americans themselves, or even by their elected representatives in Congress,” says Paul. “Instead, a handful of elites use their government connections to bypass national legislatures and ignore our Constitution – which expressly grants Congress the sole authority to regulate international trade.”

The ultimate goal, he says, is not simply a superhighway “but an integrated North American Union – complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy and virtually borderless travel within the union. Like the European Union, a North American Union would represent another step toward the abolition of national sovereignty altogether.”

http://www.wnd.com/2006/10/38614/#!

phill4paul - 06-27-2016, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Anti Federalist

Doesn't sound to me like he's in favor of it:

http://www.wnd.com/2006/10/38614/#!

Ron's been critical of a NAU for as long as we have been a forum or longer. It's been discussed many times since 2007....

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...paulforums.com

alucard13mm - 06-27-2016, 08:39 PM
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If you don't care about your borders, you don't care about your sovereignty. Why have borders in the first place? hehe

oyarde - 06-27-2016, 08:42 PM
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Well , we should have annexed Mexico when it was conquered in 1848 .

Anti Federalist - 06-27-2016, 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by phill4paul

Ron's been critical of a NAU for as long as we have been a forum or longer. It's been discussed many times since 2007....

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...paulforums.com

I know, I was just addressing erowe's ridiculous statement that suggested Ron Paul was in favor of more super state merging.

phill4paul - 06-27-2016, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Anti Federalist

I know, I was just addressing erowe's ridiculous statement that suggested Ron Paul was in favor of more super state merging.

Right. I was just backing that up by showing that anyone here from '07 should know Ron's position regarding it.

P3ter_Griffin - 06-27-2016, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by alucard13mm

If you don't care about your borders, you don't care about your sovereignty. Why have borders in the first place? hehe

Nothing screams 'SOVEREIGNTY' quite like being arrested for 'being illegal' or hiring people not on a government approved list...

timosman - 06-27-2016, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by P3ter_Griffin

Nothing screams 'SOVEREIGNTY' quite like being arrested for 'being illegal' or hiring people not on a government approved list...

Another argument out of left field.

P3ter_Griffin - 06-27-2016, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by timosman

Another argument out of left field.

??

I think I share virtually the same position as most 'open border' RPFers.

heavenlyboy34 - 06-27-2016, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by P3ter_Griffin

Nothing screams 'SOVEREIGNTY' quite like being arrested for 'being illegal' or hiring people not on a government approved list...

Even if we disregard the CONstitutionalist POV and only accept anarchism(my preference, in all disclosure), there would still exist the concept of private property. Do you think the typical private property owner would be okay with trespassers, foreign or domestic? I highly doubt it, as property owners are normally rationally self-interested and thus do not want trespassers on their property. Even the more "liberal" anarchists accept the importance and legitimacy of property boundaries. (See "Boundaries Of Order" https://mises.org/library/boundaries...-social-system by Schaffer and "Privatization Of Roads And Highways" by Block https://mises.org/library/privatizat...s-and-highways)