PREFILED    NOV 17 2025

REFERENCE TITLE: USMCA; withdrawal; urging Congress

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HM 2002

Introduced by

Representative Powell

A MEMORIAL

Urging the President and the Congress of the United States to withdraw from the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

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To the President and the Congress of the United States of America:

Your memorialist respectfully presents:

Whereas, the Declaration of Independence proclaims "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men"; and

Whereas, the security of the rights afforded to citizens by the United States Constitution is dependent on the continuing independence of our constitutional republic; and

Whereas, in the aftermath of World War II, the members of the American foreign policy establishment and their counterparts in Europe established the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951, which, through a series of free trade agreements over the succeeding decades, transformed the ECSC into the current regional government known as the European Union (EU); and

Whereas, Henry Kissinger, the dean of the American foreign policy establishment, wrote in 1993 that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) "is not a conventional trade agreement, but the hopeful architecture of a new international system," and that NAFTA would "represent the most creative step toward a new world order taken by any group of countries since the end of the Cold War"; and

Whereas, NAFTA was replaced by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which became effective in 2020; and

Whereas, on November 30, 2018, at the signing ceremony of the USMCA, former President of Mexico Enrique Pena Nieto said, "the renegotiation of the new trade agreement sought to safeguard the vision of an integrated North America" and that "the Mexico-United States-Canada Treaty gives a renewed face toward our integration"; and

Whereas, in 2023, former President of Mexico Andres Manual Lopez Obrador spoke to reporters about "the importance of...seeking the union of the entire American continent"; and

Whereas, in 2024, former President Obrador said that "the important thing is how to strengthen this integration and compromise that is convenient for both nations, convenient for the United States and convenient for Mexico to strengthen North America and subsequently strengthen the entire American continent, just as the European community was created at the beginning and later became the European Union"; and

Whereas, the members of the American foreign policy establishment have worked with their counterparts in Mexico and Canada to create a North American Union (NAU) regional government via NAFTA and the USMCA; and

Whereas, the ultimate goal of the American foreign policy establishment and fellow globalists around the world is to create a whole series of regional governments, such as the EU and the NAU, as stepping stones toward a UN world government; and

Whereas, the participation of the United States in an NAU regional government and the establishment of a UN world government would destroy American independence and the security of our rights; and

Whereas, congressional approval of free trade agreements such as the USMCA amounts to an unconstitutional ceding of Congress's exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations to supranational layers of government, such as the trilateral Free Trade Commission provided for in chapter 30 of the USMCA; and

Whereas, the gradual creation of an NAU regional government from a merger of the United States, Mexico and Canada directly threatens our constitutionally protected freedoms and our nation's independence and implies an eventual end to national borders within North America.

Wherefore your memorialist, the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, prays:

1. That the President and Congress of the United States withdraw from the USMCA and prevent any efforts to create an EU-style regional government in North America.

2. That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit copies of this Memorial to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representative and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.