The US Borders 2 Countries

File this under unintended consequences?

Every 4.7 seconds, on average, a cargo truck rumbles across the border from Canada to the United States. More than 6,000 passenger cars cross to the United States every hour. Inspectors on both sides wave through nearly 70 million visitors a year.

Officials in both countries fear that President Bush's tough new measures on the Mexican border will increase calls for tighter restrictions on movement over the bridges and highways leading in and out of Canada. Canadian officials already are trying to fight a U.S. plan to require a passport or a new identity card for travelers at the land border by Jan. 1, 2008.

The image is of the Peace Arch on the Canadian border. There is a park there and a set of gates which are always open and the inscription May These Gates Never Close. The park was built in happier times.