North border not same as southern

February 11, 2008 - 11:01PM

I read with interest The Sun's Jan. 28 editorial ("Canada border must be part of security efforts"). I'm sure it was written by someone who has never had any experience with the northern borders of our country.

To make a statement or assume that the northern border is similar to the southern border immediately shows the writer's ignorance. The only similarity between the south and north borders is the fact that they border the U.S.

For your information, we do not have a free flow of people and vehicles back and forth over the border. You can't just walk into Canada without reporting who you are, where you were born and your destination in Canada. And it has been that way for as long as I can remember.

One major difference on the north border is the fact that we all speak the same language! Also, the Canadians have the same living conditions and our governments are similar. So we don't have people trying to run our border to gain a better way of life.

The threat of terrorism is minor compared to the threat of being overrun by thousands of illegal aliens. Granted there is corruption in every government, but ours is nothing compared to the corruption south of our border.

I have lived all my life near the north border and have never witnessed the things I have seen in Yuma on the south border. We have never had our Border Patrol fired on or rocks from Canadians thrown at them.

I don't believe we have ever had a Border Patrol agent killed as happened here recently. And I have never seen a Canadian swimming across Rainy River between Ontario and Minnesota to get to the U.S.

MARLYS TVEIT, Yuma

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