Quiz: What Does Al Qaeda Want Us to Do with Our Borders?

This is a tough question. Imagine you are Osama bin Laden or a top Al Qaeda leader. You want your terrorists to get into the United States easily and frequently. Toward that end, what do you want the United States to do with its borders? Here are the choices:

A) Make the borders more secure and harder to cross.

B) Make the borders less secure and easier to cross.

Your answer? Correct! It's B. Now here's a related question. What should the United States do with people who illegally cross America's porous borders? Should they:

A) Be rewarded by the government

B) Not be rewarded by the government

You guessed B? Sorry, you're wrong, according to President Bush, who is reviving his plans to award millions of illegal immigrants with amnesty. It's all part of his push for the Free Trade Area of the Americas which will make our borders more open than ever and reduce American sovereighnty in favor of a multinational arrangement in the Americas.

Insight into the porosity of our borders comes from the interesting Web site of the American Border Patrol.

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