Saturday, December 17, 2005

So Our Mexico Border is Like the Berlin Wall?

Here's the Mexicans' take on the border fence that's part of the new immigration bill:
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission described the U.S. measure as "part of a tendency to criminalize migration with a wall that calls to mind the Berlin Wall."

Um. Yeah, okay, fellas, here's a bit of a history lesson for you. The Berlin Wall was built to keep people in. See, East Germany was such a craphole, the only way they were gonna have anyone but their Soviet puppet government nomenklatura left was to fence them in, and shoot anyone who tried to climb a fence.

Here's the difference. You have the craphole here. Our fence is to keep your people from coming here, not because we're mean, but because we really can't afford to host your whole country's population. Which is who we'll have here if we don't get a bit of control of our own border.

I have an original idea! How 'bout you guys actually get to work fixing your damned craphole so your people actually want to live in their own country, instead of spending your time bloviating about historical references you obviously don't understand?