Repost from February:

The column below ran in today’s Marietta Daily Journal in February.

North American Union would be terrible mistake

D.A. King
Columnist
February 15, 2007

“There shall be open borders”
– A recurring 1984 proposal promoted by the Wall Street Journal for a five-word amendment to the Constitution.

“By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America”.
– Presidential candidate George W. Bush in a 2000 campaign speech on Latin America in Miami.

As someone who studies our intentional lack of border security and the resulting terror threat and illegal immigration crisis in the new America of the Bush administration, the most common question I hear after people begin to suspect that the president of the United States has no intention of securing American borders – Sept. 11, 2001, be damned – is natural enough: “Why?”

Why would the president – and a large part of Congress – refuse do everything possible to stop what a 2006 House Committee on Homeland Security report estimated to be somewhere between four and ten million illegal and uninspected border crossings in 2005 alone?….

Please read the rest/original here and see the video.