On October, 26, in spite of a wave of remonstrations from Democrats and some of Republican politicians, the president of the United States of America George Bush signed a law on building a wall on the US-Mexican border to put an end to illegal immigration.

The length of the wall is estimated at 1100 km. “The law will help us to defend the American people and strengthen border control. It is a necessary step towards migration reform”, stated George Bush during a short ceremony in Roosevelt hall of White House.

The law n the wall is a part of a US government programme, implemented to resolve the problem of illegal migration. The programme is one of the pillars of governmental preparation to the oncoming parliamentary elections which are due on November, 7. The abovementioned wall is to be erected on the territory of all the states bordering on Mexico, namely California, Arizona, New-Mexico and Texas. Besides, according to Bush, a system of check-points is to be introduced with cameras and other latest military systems of border control. The president of Mexico, in his turn, compared the wall to “the ignoble wall”, constructed in Berlin in 1961. He claimed the following: “It is impossible in the XXI century to build a wall between two fraternal and partner neighbour-states. This is a negative token of something going wrong in a state positioning itself as a democratic one, as a state of immigrants”.

According to experts, there are about 11 million Mexicans in USA now half of them do not have legal status. In 2005 an immigrant sent to his/her country about 20000 dollars each, which proved to be a second largest source of Mexican budget incomes second only to oil export.

The cost of the wall is to be within the range of 2 to 9 billion dollars. The law does not contain any provisions for creating special funds to finance the erection of the wall. It is possible that the first part of the necessary sum, about 1,200 million dollars, is to be provided by the Department of Homeland Security in 2007.