The claim: President Joe Biden signed away US sovereignty
A Jan. 25 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows a woman speaking into a camera below the on-screen text that reads, "time is up."
"Did you know that the United States of America as you know it no longer exists?" the woman says. "While no one was paying attention, Joe Biden signed away our sovereignty as a nation."
The video was shared more than 3,000 times in a week.
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Biden has not signed any agreement giving up U.S. sovereignty. A document released after a recent summit with Mexico and Canada is not legally binding and does not create any new governing institutions, a law expert told USA TODAY.
Expert says document doesn't affect US sovereignty
Biden recently attended a two-day summit in Mexico City with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. At the conclusion of the meeting, the White House released a document called the Declaration of North America that lists the three countries' mutual commitments on various topics, including climate, health and migration.
The woman in the video claims the declaration signals that "they've completed what their plan has always been, the North American Union, a declaration separate and outside of the Constitution."
The Constitution gives the president the power to make treaties but also requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate to approve them. But the declaration in question isn't a treaty, which is a...
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