More about Utah's "Alliance" with Mexico.

An alert reader of THE NEW AMERICAN pointed out that the name of Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. no longer appears on the membership roster for the globalist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), as we previously reported ("Huntsman's Amnesty 'Alliance,'" August 8 issue). Huntsman was a CFR member from 1993 to 1998. In a mini-essay published in the group's 1996 Annual Report, Huntsman praised the globalist group effusively, extolling the CFR as "America's premier crossroads for those who are internationally minded and experienced."

As a deputy U.S. trade representative in the George W. Bush administration, Huntsman played a significant role in the unfolding campaign to build a system of global governance through the creation of multilateral "free trade" pacts. This background is crucial in light of Governor Huntsman's emergence as an Establishment-approved point man dealing with the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico and Latin America.

During his Senate confirmation hearings, reported the July 31, 2001 Deseret News, Huntsman specifically mentioned that he would play a role in "China's accession to the World Trade Organization." Just last January, the WTO lifted the worldwide system of national textile import quotas, which effectively turned the world textile market over to China.

A year ago, the Christian Science Monitor predicted that this would bring about "a massive transfer of jobs and wealth in the developing world over the next few years"--from the impoverished, textile-producing nations of the CAFTA region to China. This will almost certainly result in another wave of immigration, legal, and illegal, from Latin America northward. And Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. now stands ready to help craft a "solution" to a problem he helped exacerbate.

This brings us back to the so-called "Alliance for Prosperity" Huntsman has proposed with Mexico. During his recent meeting in Mexico with Vicente Fox, Huntsman offered assurances that he would work with other members of the Western Governors' Association to find a "solution" to the problem of illegal immigration. The preferred arrangement, Huntsman said, would be to "work on mobility of the work force"--a perspective that syncs up with the Bush administration's proposed amnesty for illegal aliens.

Governor Huntsman's approach earned plaudits from Joe Reyna, a regional president of Zions Bank of Utah and the incoming chairman of the board of directors of the Utah Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. "For President Fox to hear the Utah governor is going to push an agenda for immigration reform ... that's music to his ears," he commented. Mr. Reyna should know. As a member of Mexico's Institute for Mexicans Abroad, he is an official adviser to Vicente Fox.

While Governor Huntsman hasn't offered substantive details about his immigration "solution," it's reasonable to believe that the enchanting "music" he's performing for Vicente Fox's enjoyment is the overture to another sell-out of our national interests.