Mr. Speaker. as we enter the final hours of the debate on NAFTA. I am concerned with something that is happening outside of this body. and I take the floor to ask my colleagues to disassociate yourselves from this endeavor. I picked up from the Wall Street Journal of yesterday an article about a group fighting NAFTA that are called nonamers. Let me quote from it--they have dinnersit says: The atmosphere turns xenophobic with antiMexican slurs. It is kind of amusing and kind of frightening. one attendee says. Mr. Speaker. we have not done this with China and we have not done it with the Soviet Union.
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Accusations of xenophobia and anti-Mexican slurs.