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2005 Chertoff Implementation Memo on Security and Prosperity Partnership
Written by Powell Gammill Subject: North American UnionFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 20, 2007
Contact: 202-646-5188
Judicial
Watch Uncovers 2005 Chertoff Implementation
Memo on
Security and Prosperity Partnership
“. . . ongoing action and reporting in the various . .
. working groups led by DHS should now [be] driven by a single agenda: the
SPP.”
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group
that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) records obtained under the provisions of
the Freedom of Information Act containing Secretary Michael Chertoff’s
September 22, 2005 Implementation Memorandum for the Security and Prosperity
Partnership (SPP). The records describe the agencies within the
Department of Homeland Security responsible for executing the
partnership’s security agenda.
According to the memorandum signed by Secretary Chertoff:
“…The [Security and Prosperity Partnership] has, in addition
to identifying a number of new action items, comprehensively rolled up most of
our existing homeland security-related policy initiatives with Canada and
Mexico, and ongoing action and reporting in the various U.S.-Canada and
U.S.-Mexico working groups led by DHS [Department of Homeland Security] should
now be driven by a single agenda: the SPP.”
The records also contain an information paper describing ten
“Prosperity Pillar Working Groups,” and the organization of the
“US-Mexico Critical Infrastructure Protection Work Group.”
Unlike previous records produced by other federal agencies, the DHS
records are heavily redacted to withhold the names of the US, Mexican and Canadian government officials carrying
out the partnership’s agenda across all three countries.
Another record reviewed and released by DHS is a 10-page chart listing
36 “SPP Security High-Level Working Groups” that include the
“Mexico-US Repatriation Technical WG,” the “Mexico-US Intelligence
and Information Sharing WG,” and the “Canada-US Cross Border Crime
Forum,” among others.
“These new records prove the
Security and Prosperity Partnership is being directed by officials at the very
highest levels of the United States government,” said
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Americans should know that
the SPP is a core policy initiative for many agencies in our government,
including the Department of Homeland Security.”
On March 23, 2005, heads of government Vincente Fox, George W. Bush,
and Paul Martin launched the North American partnership at a meeting in Waco, Texas, with
the expressed goal of “a safer, more prosperous North America.” Critics, however, maintain the
partnership is advancing some dubious policies and could ultimately compromise U.S. sovereignty.
To read
the Security and Prosperity Partnership documents, visit Judicial Watch’s
Internet site, www.judicialwatch.org.
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