On Thursday, October 26, 2006 President Bush signed a bill that authorizes the construction of a 700 mile fence on the 2100 mile border with Mexico. Â The fence itself is to keep illegal Mexican immigrants from entering the USA. Â The United States for the longest time has had some pretty lax border control and only now are they starting to get tough. Â Mexico’s President does not support this idea of a fence at all, calling the whole thing “deplorable.” Â I would have to agree with him. Â There is not need for a fence to control borders. Â If people really want to get into the United States, all the fence is going to do is slow them down for a couple minutes. Â In the past there was also talk from some senators about a similar project for the Canadian border! Now that is ludicrous. Â If senators think that Canadians are going to try to sneak into the United States to steal jobs they are badly mistaken. If the United States ever decided to put up a wall with Canada, I think Canada should put up a second wall but build it faster and get it up first. Â Then Canada can control the wall. But, history has taught us a thing or two about putting up walls. Â They will separate people for a bit, but in the end the wall will come down or just become obsolete. Â Take for example the Berlin Wall or the Great Wall in China; one wall is destroyed the other is obsolete. Â The United States should focus its resources on building something useful like new schools for children caught up in their war on terror in the Middle East.
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I support your idea of Canada building a wall first and faster so that we can control it!