Editor’s Note: Anyone who
simply wants to anoint Ted Cruz as the next great conservative,
without first vetting him, is part of the problem we have in this country, at
least in my humble opinion.
Those of us who refuse to admit that we have been
fooled before are simply in denial. For the record I like Ted Cruz. I do, however,
have some questions about him including his eligibility. A couple of weeks ago we ran a never before seen interview with Cruz in
which he clearly stated that Heidi’s involvement with the Council on Foreign Relations was a matter
of her joining as a voice of dissent. After reading the below article you can decide
whether or not you believe his words. -Dean Garrison, DC Clothesline Editor
by Dr. Eowyn
Sen.
Ted Cruz (R-Texas) met
his wife, Heidi (née Nelson), while working on the George W.
Bush presidential campaign of 2000. Heidi
Cruz is currently head of the Southwest Region in the Investment Management
Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and previously worked in the White House for
Condoleezza Rice and in New York as an investment banker for J.P. Morgan. Wikipedia lists Heidi Cruz as an “investment banker” and a “historical member” of the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR).
Heidi Cruz was a member of the CFR-sponsored Independent Task
Force on the Future of North America, which was launched in October 2004. The Task Force advocates a greater economic
and social integration between Canada, Mexico, and the United States as a North
American region.
Comprised of a group of prominent business, political and
academic leaders from the U.S., Canada and Mexico, the Task Force was organized
and sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations (U.S.), the Canadian Council
of Chief Executives, and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations. It was
co-chaired by former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance,
John Manley, former Finance Minister of Mexico, Pedro Aspe, and former Governor
of Massachusetts and Assistant U.S. Attorney General William F. Weld.
Its main publication is the 70-page Task Force Report #53
entitled, Building a North American Community (May
2005). Heidi Cruz is listed as a member of the Task Force (page 9 of the report
in PDF) and described as “an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch
in Houston, Texas” who “served in the Bush White House under Dr. Condoleezza
Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security
Council, as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury
Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S.
Trade Representative.”
The Report’s recommendations include (see pp. 7-32 of the
Report; pp. 29-54 of the PDF):
1. ESTABLISH A COMMON SECURITY PERIMETER BY 2010
“The governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States should
articulate as their long-term goal a common security perimeter for North
America. In particular, the three governments should strive toward a situation
in which a terrorist trying to penetrate our borders will have an equally hard
time doing so, no matter which country he elects to enter first.”
2. DEVELOP A NORTH AMERICAN BORDER PASS
“The three countries should develop a secure North American
Border Pass with biometric identifiers. This document would allow its bearers
expedited passage through customs, immigration, and airport security throughout
the region.”
3. DEVELOP A UNIFIED
NORTH AMERICAN BORDER ACTION PLAN
Specific recommendations under this plan include:
§ “Harmonize visa and
asylum regulations, including convergence of the list of “visa waiver’’
countries;
§ Harmonize entry screening
and tracking procedures for people, goods, and vessels (including integration
of name-based and biometric watch lists);
§ By 2010, “Lay the
groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America. The three governments
should commit themselves to the long-term goal of dramatically diminishing the need for the current intensity of the
governments’ physical control of cross-border traffic, travel, and trade
within North America. A long-term goal for a North American border action plan
should be . . . the elimination of most controls over the temporary movement of these travelers within North America.“
4. LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND MILITARY COOPERATION
“Security cooperation among the three countries should also
extend to cooperation on counterterrorism and law enforcement, which would
include the establishment of a trinational threat intelligence center, the
development of trinational ballistics and explosives registration, and joint training for law
enforcement officials.”
5. SPREAD THE
BENEFITS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
“NAFTA has transformed Mexico, but it has also deepened and made
much more visible the divisions that exist in the country…. The gap in wages
has led many Mexicans to travel north in search of higher incomes and better
opportunities. For the past three decades, Mexico has been the largest source
of legal immigrants to the United States, and Mexican-Americans make
increasingly valued and growing contributions to the life of the United States
and, through remittances, to their families at home. Mexico is also the leading
source of unauthorized migration, with attendant economic and security problems
in both countries and untold hardships for Mexican migrants. Over time, the
best way to diminish these problems is by promoting better economic
opportunities in Mexico.”
Note: In
other words, more socialist “spread the wealth”!
6. ESTABLISH A
SEAMLESS NORTH AMERICAN MARKET FOR TRADE
“With tariff barriers virtually eliminated, and the outlines of
a North American economy visible, the time has come to take a
more comprehensive approach to strengthening the economic prospects for
citizens in all three countries. The first step is to encourage
convergence in the most-favored-nation tariff rates each partner charges on
imports from outside North America. Next, the governments should reduce the
remaining nontariff barriers to the flow of goods and services, and address
problems arising from charges of price discrimination and subsidization by
competitors in North America. Finally, they should coordinate their approach to
unfair trade practices by foreign suppliers to the North American market. The ultimate goal should be to create a seamless market for
suppliers and consumers throughout North America.“
7. INCREASE LABOR
MOBILITY WITHIN NORTH AMERICA
“To make the most of the impressive pool of skill and talent
within North America, the three countries should look beyond the NAFTA visa system. The large volume of
undocumented migrants from Mexico within the United States is an urgent matter
for those two countries to address. A long-term goal should be to create a ‘North American
preference’—new
rules thatwould make it much easier for employees to move and for employers
to recruit across national boundaries within the continent…. Canada and the United
States should consider eliminating restrictions on labor mobility altogether
and work toward solutions that, in the long run, could enable the extension of
full labor mobility to Mexico as well.”
Specifics on how to create a North American free flow of labor
include:
§ By 2010, streamline
immigration and labor mobility rules to “enable citizens of all three countries
to work elsewhere in North America with far fewer restrictions than immigrants
from other countries.”
§ “Special immigration
status should be given to teachers, faculty, and students in the region.”
§ “Move to full labor
mobility between Canada and the United States” by “eliminating all remaining
barriers to the ability of their citizens to live and work in the other
country.”
8. NORTH AMERICAN
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
The Task Force recommends the following North American regional
political institutions be established:
1.
An annual North American summit meeting.
2.
A North American Advisory Council.
3.
A North American Inter-Parliamentary Group to meet every other
year.
In the last part of the Task Force’s report, “Additional and
Dissenting Views,” Heidi S. Cruz wrote (pp. 33-34):
“I support the Task Force report and its recommendations aimed
at building a safer and more prosperous North America. Economic prosperity and
a world safe from terrorism and other security threats are no doubt
inextricably linked. While governments play an invaluable role in both regards,
we must emphasize the imperative that economic investment be led and
perpetuated by the private sector. There is no force proven like the market for
aligning incentives, sourcing capital, and producing results like financial
markets and profit-making businesses. This is simply necessary to sustain a
higher living standard for the poorest among us—truly the measure of our
success. As such, investment funds and financing mechanisms should be deemed
attractive instruments by those committing the capital and should only be
developed in conjunction with market participants.”
Now you know why, despite his blustering against Obama’s
executive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens in this country, on March 27,
2015, Ted Cruz indicated he “remains open to a path to
legal status for undocumented workers.”
Born in Canada of an American
citizen mother and a Cuban father, Ted Cruz held dual Canadian-U.S.
citizenship. But it was only when the Dallas
Morning News in August 2013 pointed out his dual citizenship that Cruz
finally applied to renounce his Canadian citizenship — which meant that in 2012
when Cruz had run for and was elected a U.S. senator, he was a Canadian
citizen. On May 14, 2014, Cruz finally ceased being a citizen of
Canada. See “Republican
Sen. Ted Cruz announces presidential campaign, but is he eligible?”
