(AP Photo/Hatem Omar)*Texans and southern New Mexicans cross the border after militants exploded the U.S. border wall between El Paso and Mexico, seen background, in Juarez, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. Masked El Paso gunmen breached the wall recently erected to keep Mexicans from illegally entering the U.S. Wednesday, and thousands of El Pasoans trapped in their country by a tight U.S. blockade poured into Juarez to buy or steal food, fuel and other scarce U.S. supplies.
American border patrol guards and El Paso police took no action as Americans hurried over the border and began returning with bags of food, boxes of cigarettes and plastic bottles of fuel which unavailable in the U.S. as a result of the savage depression there.
*Note: On this planet, Earth, this would be a photo of tens of thousands fleeing Gaza for Egypt through a hole blasted in the Israeli wall by masked gunmen with explosives.
3 comments:
You sucked me in! I was wondering when such a fence had been built in El Paso. Silly me!
Sadly, the govt of Egypt is no more likely to provide any meaningful or long term help for these "border crossers" than any of the other bordering states ever have. But they have been busy selling them food & supplies, maybe even guns? What a mess.
I've been thinking about this post all day; ergo, it's a good one. Not so much about the parallel you describe but about the whole idea of fences making good neighbors (misquoting Frost, of course). As a resident of the borderlands, I'm even more opposed (if that's possible) to the building of the US-Mexico fence after seeing this news item yesterday. Good for you for bringing this to the attention of your readers -- all ten of us! Just kidding, of course. I be bad!
eprof - (make that seven! ~ g) I suspect fences and walls may be the death of us all. (referring specifically to those built on top of imaginary boundaries drawn on maps, but I suppose it's a hint of a major shortcoming of mankind.)
Okay, I'd better get back to my room.
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