U.S./Canada Border crossing.. How It Is Here

Since your daughters inlaws are north of the border.

Gary

I buy my alfalfa hay from Ontario. The trucker that brings it has never mentioned a problem. And the farmer I buy it from has no problem sending it across. I was just wondering how that works. Due to the fact that it is a plant material.

Thanks,
Matt

It's like with a border fence between two neighbors. If the fence is tight, and neither your cattle nor your neighbor's can get across, all is well and you have cordial relations.

With the southern border, it's like the situation where your neighbor has been throwing trash on your property for YEARS! If you suddenly sit up, take notice and object, the neigbor is miffed and thinks HIS RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED, which is funny since your neighbor NEVER had the right to throw trash on your property.

Perhaps the word trash is too harsh. Say the example was tresspassing slob hunters. They are also unwelcome, but probably would tend to regard YOUR PROPERTY as their private hunting preserve.

The truth is, the USA has "allowed" border crossing violations with Mexican illegally sneaking in, for so long, the only likely way to solve the problem will be to ANNEX MEXICO and make them all registerd voting tax paying US Citizens.

National sovereignty REQUIRES that a country maintain a border. I do not think that it is the US which will ultimately have to "surrender" here, so---unless MEXICO does something itself, to preserve it's own identity and nationality, there IS that strong chance that the "border that is no border unofficially", will become an OFFICIAL former border.

Our neighbors to the south, of a different culture, and who speak a different language, we can't welcome them enough even though they are changing our culture.

Here's what James Madison, the "father" of the constitution had to say about the subject while trying to convince the 13 colonies to federalize.

From the 2nd federalist paper:

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"It has often given me pleasure to observe that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, widespreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters forms a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind it together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation and exchange of their various commodities.

With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.

This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties."

Hamilton, Jay, and Madison wrote 85 papers in what is still studied today as one of the most effective ways to sell a product.

The 85 papers, know as "The Federalist Papers", describe in some detail how the new government would be setup and run under the constitution as well as the need etc.

Clearly, we don't have what the founding fathers envisioned.....