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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 12:00 AM

Don't fence me out

Andrew Leonard

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007 08:10 PM

    What a great idea

    "Maybe the smartest thing to do would be to take all the billions that are going to be spent on border control, and invest it in building roads and schools and other infrastructure in Mexico. A Marshall Plan for Mexico might seem unworkably utopian to some, but at least it would be a way forward built on hope, rather than exclusion."

    It sure doesn't seem utopian to me. Can you imagine the goodwill that this plan would buy?

    —Ross Johnson Read Ross Johnson's other letters

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