Sunday, July 15, 2007
Keeping People In
The House voted 260-159
Bush hardly ever vetoes anything
The administration has allocated billions of dollars to beef up security along the U.S.-Mexico and the U.S.-Canada borders
...the wall will be 15 feet high to prevent people from going to work.... (we don't have a problem with terrorists hopping the border and suicide-bombing discos or shopping centers)
...eventually it will stretch from shining sea to shining sea....
No one in the US media told you the fence seems to be planned to work for both directions
Are you sure you be able to leave????
ok starting to look like a cheep meaner version of the china wall but who's the mongols .If we are the land of the free and home of the brave why do we need fences to keep us in and others out ?when is america the smart going to wake up to all this harming ?mental and other wize?
The fence shows the mentality of America and represents what they are. Backwards and hostile and paranoid. The only good thing about it, is when their nation does explode, or implode, it will slow them way down when they start running towards Mexico for safety.
The whole wranglings over the wall and immigration have been quite interesting as the US rling class faces quite a dilemma. They are reliant of cheap immigrant labour to keep holding workers wages down (similar to the UK), but on the other hand many on the political right will have been elected on lsightly xenophobic anti-immigration platforms. From a class perspective what needs to happen is for workers to be organised both inside and outside the US for better wages and conditions, their seems to be signs of this happening in China recently (see www.chinaworker.info) and for an example of how immigrant workers could be organised alongside US-born workers look at the struggle of the GAMA construction workers in Ireland.
This is what the wall says to me: We USA people know we vampirized and destroyed the economies of Latin America thru neoliberalism and such tricks, and we know you are fleeing the wreckage. We ARE responsible for you being here, but we don't care. You aren't coming HERE. Go die somewhere.
