What's America coming to?

DAKOTA DUNES -- In a recent story in The Journal we read that "The Bush administration (has) urged a federal appeals court to let Mexican cargo trucks cross the border and freely travel anywhere in the United States, arguing that to deny them could 'strain diplomatic relations' between the two nations." This is planned as part of a "demonstration project." Demonstration for what?!? What proof do we have that all of these trucks have been inspected to U.S. standards? Our highways are dangerous enough without having unreliable trucks loosed among already crowded highways to supplement the mayhem we read about constantly. Talk about strained diplomatic relations.

Are we to lie down in the streets and be stomped to death by Mexican marchers who fly our flag upside down, aflame and beneath that of Mexico's? Are we to welcome another 8-20 million illegal immigrants who can't be taken care of by their own government? And now let their truckers take more American jobs away?

Why should we cringe from "straining diplomatic actions" with people who hate us and demand that Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas be returned to them? What is our country coming to? -- H. Clark Wright

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