That spirit has produced and sustained a thriving crossborder tourism industry and hundreds of billions of dollars in trade between our two countries every year. Border economies on both sides of the divide depend on that trade and tourism. So it would be shortsighted and selfdestructive to permit a flawed border security plan to cut off such a lifeline. Unfortunately. the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. put forth with so much fanfare by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State. threatens to do just that. In the name of heightened security. this plan. if implemented in its current form. will mean that millions of tourists from both countries will stay home and businesses will stop shipping their goods across the border.
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