"There's something that doesn't love a wall..."

Our country is very split over immigration. We fear potential terrorism, loss of jobs, that it's unfair to allow illegal immigrants an amnesty. But there's also simple prejudice, especially against Mexicans, because they're not of our predominately European culture. However, we need immigration to support low-level jobs that most Americans don't want to do. After all, our entire nation was created by immigrants. The Mexican immigrants I've met, whether legal or not I don't know, appeared to be very hard-working, nice people who wanted to make a good living for themselves and families. I don't see that as a problem. I've only wished that they could speak English better because I don't know Spanish, making it difficult to communicate. Perhaps they were newly in the country and trying to learn our language. That's a problem that's easy to solve.
With NAFTA, the North American continent was supposed to be a free trade zone. Both Canada and Mexico are participants. Whether or not you like the NAFTA rules, they should have opened the borders, but after the 9/11 attack we began to fear terrorist ingress across our borders and tightened security against what appears to be very little threat. Now, the Bush administration and Homeland Security are trying to build a real border wall between us and Mexico, from where most of the illegal immigrants come. We don't have that problem with Canada; they're much more like us, if we're white.
North America should be a more unified economic entity. It just makes sense. Canadians, Mexicans and Americans have much more in common than differences. Working together, we can build and secure a stronger tri-nation unity that will benefit us all.
The border wall is a misguided and very economically wasteful approach based only on fear. It creates more distrust and fear among our nations when we need friends. How long can it last?
Mr. Bush, tear down that wall!