Letters to the Editor
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Canadians
One thing I have always loved about Canadians is the fact that they actually have some national pride in the midst of a world that teaches us to not have that kind of individualism. Don't worry, not all Americans want to merge all of us together and I think the majority of us like it the way it is. If Canada and the US haven't "pissed" each other off by now, don't think we will. Don't get caught up in thinking that the oil trading doesn't go both ways. We get the majority of our oil from Canada and Mexico and would like to keep it that way, but it is a pretty good marriage for both us. Either way, I like my northern friends and appreciate their desire to stay unified with themselves.
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So long, Canada ?
As a resident of the U.S./Mexico border, I find Edward McClelland's article about 'poor' Canada downright amusing! When my friends, who are restauranteurs and merchants in Acuna, across the Rio Grande have had to close their doors due to the vilifying of Mexico by so-called experts like Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, O'Reilly, etc., and when Acuna's 'tourism' is down up to 90% due to these accusations, I can't feel sorry for Canada and Canadians - - or for the Americans on the 'north' border who can no longer 'party' in Canada.
Let's see, where did the 9/11 terrorists come from? Not the Mexican border. Thank goodness that some 'equal justice' is now being admnistered 'up there' to offset what we've endured down here since long before the new policy became law in January.
None of us likes to wait in line for hours to cross back into our country; none of us likes to have to prove that we are an American citizen to be able to come home; none of us wants to have our vehicles searched; none of us wants to have another terroristic attack on our Country. However, we've all become subjected to a 'war on terror' by our government that really is all about lining the pockets of a the corporations that receive (often no-bid) contracts to provide 'security' at the borders - - like 'the wall' between the U.S. and Mexico, which even the Border Patrol admits won't work!
We're waiting for the announcement that y'all up there are going to be next to have a divider between you and your friends in Canada. Of course, it won't ever happen, since as McClelland points out, Canadians are more like "Americans" than Mexicans.
'Scuse me, Mr. McClelland, I believe your ancestors also came from a foreign country. The only 'natives' here are the indigenous, many of whose bloodlines are tied to our Hispanic friends. Re-read your American history! An apology is in order. And, fyi, I am a WASP.
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Driver's License?
What if you are blind? Also, not everyone can pony up the money to get all the certificates and paperwork to get a passport. This is such steaming horseshit.
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donut44 -- good name
I assume the hole is where your intelligence should be.
Or let me put it another way -- you say there is no negative effect, based on what, the hole in your head or gazing up the hole in your rear.
The rest of us speak from direct personal knowledge -- of multi-million dollar investments and good jobs that did not arrive in the US because of INS stupidity (you should apply for a job assuming you don't work there already -- hell you are qualified, check Xenophobe, check asshole), of people who refuse to go to the US as tourists because of the behaviour of DHS?INS.
your response -- boo-hoo -- well boo-hoo you to unemployment.
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9/11 terrorists did not enter from Canada
Some Americans still believe that 9/11 terrorists entered the US from Canada. Didn't they get in legally with visas issued by US government. I am not sure where the idea started that the terrorists came across from Canada, but it has been proven to be false.
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Chertoff is a citizen of Israel
Chertoff is a dual US/Israel citizen. These criminal elites don't even care what We the People think.
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Wow MacK
Did I offend you somehow that you should unleash such an unlimited amount of hatred towards me. Do you know me? If you don't like something I say then great, but then to begin to do nothing but spout out hatred and insults is quite amazing, but I guess not shocking.
Worst of all, I never said anything about there not being a negative impact, and I would love for you in the middle of your hate speech to find where I did.
I did say that tourism isn't down, which it isn't, since I go and find facts (go see the office of Travel and Tourism). I also mentioned it is not good to throw around facts as if they are when they are not. So where are yours MacK? And why so much hatred towards me? Is there something wrong with discourse?
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We'll always have Niagara...
What IS going on here?
It's not as if we have to worry about illegal aliens from the world's stoop-labor hubs pouring across our border via Canada. There's no reason for them to leave the mighty northern bastion of redcoats and mukluks: Canada is more doltishly, lickspittle "multicultural" than we are, if you can conceive of THAT! What we might want to keep out are Canada's backward "Human Rights Commission" inquisition and those chilly Thousand Island temps, though.
How about tightening up the southern chain-link? We're drowning in surly ESL sales clerks and noisy mow-and-blow yard crews.
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Canada is First World, Mexico Third World
bordergal,
Glad you like living near a corrupt, failed narco state that encourages it's citizens to scam their way into the US, in defiance of US laws. Sounds perfect for someone happily spreading the neo-con lie that the 9/11 killers had anything to do with Canada. Clearly you would have no understanding of the long and civilized friendship that northerners and Canadians have shared for nearly 2 centuries. If Texas could be booted out of the Union, along with it's failed president, America would be much improved. Many of the northern states would be happy to join Canada, but I suspect the Canadians would decline. Our Canadian friends may sympathize with our plight, but I doubt they want our problems.