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We are all familiar with the tug-of-war between the EU and the United States over the release of airline passenger name records to the US government , and the increasing " deputization " of corporations as de facto agents of government in collecting and passing on personal information to government . Yet the BWC does not provide for any protocol for enforcement because , as the United States candidly acknowledged at the time , compliance with the convention would be unverifiable . Although it includes traditional ramparts ( the Mexican border of the United States ) and barbed-wire-fenced minefields ( between Greece and Turkey ) , much of globalized immigration enforcement today takes place at sea or in the air . Computer simulations have shown that an asteroid 5 kilometers in diameter hitting in the mid-Atlantic ocean would produce a tsunami that would penetrate to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in the upper two-thirds of the United States . The larger picture Mr. Egeland fails to appreciate is that America 's wealth and prosperity - partly sustained by low taxes - is a greater bulwark against human suffering than the United Nations ever has been or likely will be .