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Everyone makes some interesting points here. A couple of things to consider, though- 1) We have the ability and the technology to close our borders. Are we willing to pay the cost? By cost, I mean people- someone other than the sleepy TSA types who wave a wand over you at the airport. Who pays for closing a border? Initially, the taxpayers- us. Then the US government will figure out that businesses- like the railroads, who carry huge amounts of imports- ought to pay some kind of "security" fee. 2) As citizens of the USA we take an awful lot of pride in our freedoms. We resent government intrusion into what we read, write, do and say. Having lived in El Paso, Texas, and Phoenix, Arizona, one got used to being stopped for INS checkpoints at the border, or within 20 miles of it. One might even tolerate an occasional search of the car. I'm not so sure the thousands of tourists who happily race across the border- to Canada, as well as Mexico- are all willing to get interrogated, searched, probed and questioned that intensively. Most people want to feel safe in their homes and in their workplaces, but at gut level, they don't want a police state, either. Erik
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