There are so many peeople trying to obtain the United States citizenship so that they can come to the United States more freely without any problem. The United States are very strict with their immigration law to control visitors to make the United States safe. The United States are located between Canada and Mexico. Both boarder line is very important for the United States to be safe. Most of time, media focus issues with Mexican boarder and trying to ban Mexicans to enter to the United States. According to the CNN, Canadians were able to across the United States from Canada without no passport or visa because all they have to say was ” I am Canadian”. Is it discriminating between Mexian and Canadian because Mexian does not have common language, English, like Canadians do?
The United States really worry about the security of the country whenever someone from the other country enters. For example, whenever I come to the United States, I have to make sure i have my passport, Visa, I-20 with signature to confirm that I am a student here and reason to be here. I had to give them finger print and picture to go through. But Canadians didn’t have to because they were just Canadian which allowed them to freely cross the boarder. Depends on citizenship of countries, they dont have to have visa to enter the United States.
Is this a discrimination because of wrong citizenship and create a huge security holes and cause the United States to face huge security problems?
Now they are trying to make Canadians to have proof to show that they are Canadian to enter the Untied States, but still it is way to easy for them to across the boarder than Mexians do.
I was really shocked with this news and how they are really discriminating Mexicans and treat them differntly because of the citizenship
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jd // March 20, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Very interesting.
Julie Desautels // April 19, 2008 at 12:04 am
You shouldn’t believe everything CNN says. For at the very least the past 20 years, Canadians entering the States by ground (car, train…) had to prove they were Canadian. While they didn’t need a passport or visa, they did need an offical document (driver’s license, birth certificate or medical card). It’s easier for Canadians to enter the States then most but that doesn’t mean they can just waltz in either. So yeah, still not fair to Mexicans though.
jd // April 22, 2008 at 12:07 am
Actually, while the law required Canadians to prove citizenship before being allowed entry into the US, customs officials rarely requested to see proof of citizenship prior to 9/11. For the most part, they’d just wave suspected Canadians on through.