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...jobs as meat packers in Iowa and carpetmakers in Georgia and gardeners in Pennsylvania. They want to be in the U.S. so badly they will risk the scorpions and the rattlesnakes, the surveillance cameras and underground sensors; they will fold into hidden compartments behind the dashboard of a car or in the belly of a tanker truck. They know they can get a job no one else wants, save some money, send some home, maybe find a way to bring their family--because someday this border may not look anything like what it does now: a barbed-wire paradox, half...
...justice and banking systems. Some American borderlanders who cheer integration in public go off the record to talk about what's wrong, admit that they rarely visit the other side or whisper quietly that they haven't felt the same about the place since a friend had his car hijacked a few years ago and they never saw him again. You can sense the same mysterious half silence wherever you go; Mexicans call it Article No. 20, as in Which of the $20 is for me? Police and Customs people pay for their government jobs so they...
...foreign investment in the U.S. Mike Van Winkle Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. Ford Focused In this age of globalization, in which free trade gives the consumer the option to buy the best value in the world marketplace, consumers should give extra points to Ford Motor Co. when purchasing a car [Feb. 6]. Here's an American company that created the middle class in the U.S. and built tanks and planes that helped us win World War II. Ford should be given every purchase consideration for its vehicles. After reading your article, I feel like waving the flag for Bill Ford...
...that Brown, a former English teacher, is a creature of habit. There are no surprises—just more of the same winning formula. Replace the scientist with a stolid Harvard symbologist, the analyst with a sassy cop, and the executive branch with the Catholic Church. Then include some car chases, narrow escapes, and the requisite sexual tension—and voil?...
...idea of a standard is nothing new. Long before the personal computer, there were standards for gasoline, so that car manufacturers could build cars and motorcycles and SUVs compatible with readily available gas, and standards for battery size and shape so that people who wanted to build battery-powered gizmos could do so with confidence...