and, Buchanan and Nader list the same laundry list of why corporations are trying to circumvent national laws, citing environmental, health-and-safety, wage-and-hour and civil-rights reasons.
Impacts on our border are also areas where Buchanan and Nader express similar criticism of NAFTA. Buchanan is concerned that the long-term objective of NAFTA is to erase all United States borders to create a merger of the United States, Mexico and Canada in a North American union stretching from Prudhoe Bay to Guatemala. Buchanan believes that NAFTA supporters ultimately want to create connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union that would allow absolute freedom of movement between Mexico and the United States. He believes that this transformation would not be in the best interest of the United States. Already, Buchanan asserts that, thanks to relaxed restrictions under NAFTA, our border with Mexico has already descended into a state of anarchy with 5,000 illegal aliens daily attempting to cross over from Mexico into the United States and drug trafficking crime dramatically increasing. Likewise, Nader charges that, "The borders are a nightmare; more smuggling, more pollution, more infectious diseases. The environmental commissions are toothless."
NAFTA was sold to the American public as a win-win situation for all participating countries. but, the far left and the far right are saying that the United States is a big loser. For two sides that typically diverge on the political and economic policies that are in the best interest of the American people to agree on NAFTA sends an alarm that mainstream politicians may be under too much corporate influence to behave in...
Bartoleme De Las Casas An Analysis of the Activism of Bartoleme De Las Casas Often characterized by modern historians as the "Defender and the apostle to the Indians," Bartolome de Las Casas is known for exposing and condemning as well as exaggerating and misrepresenting the violent practices of Spanish colonizers of the New World against Native Americans. Marked by emotional polemic and often embellished statistics, Las Casas' voluminous works brought him both
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