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To: Condor who wrote (184)	9/18/2001 12:20:50 AM
From: tekboy	of 281500

I suspect you and I can agree that our scrutiny of incoming global citizens ( be they temp. or permanent residents) is too casual. I feel we owe it to our next door neighbours (and ourselves) to be much more vigilant in that chore. It's not a question of owing it to us, it's a question of economic necessity for both countries. Take a look at the bridge near Detroit--any kind of serious checking of cargo being carried across would slow the traffic down to a crawl and have terrible economic consequences. Thanks to NAFTA, the U.S., Canada and Mexico are simply too economically integrated for border security to be a purely national concern. We already have, as it were, a kind of junior league de facto Schengen accord, in which anybody who gets into you can pretty easily get into us. So--down the road, part of the answer will be outsourcing security checks (for goods, people, etc.) further and further abroad, and creating public systems sort of like the private systems companies use now to track their goods throughout the supply chain. Excellent reading on this topic can be found here: foreignaffairs.org tekboy/Ares@yup.com

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