Mr. Bush, Take Down This Wall

[L. Coyote]

Why are Canadians treated differently that Mexicans?
To name a few walls that need to come down...

Mr. Bush, Take Down This Wall:

The Race Wall
The Minimum Wage Wall
The Right to Vote Wall
The Human Dignity Wall
The Equality Wall

Please help name a few more of the walls you want to see come down ....

Is the real motivation behind "guest worker" classification control of the
voter demographic, like slaves, Indians and Negores not having voting rights
in the past?

Why do we build a wall on only one border?
Why not take down that wall?
Why not open the border to all citizens of Mexico?
Is something wrong with their money or their color?

Are Mexicans and Canadians equal under American law?

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Bush, for once, isn't the bad guy

Bush wants a PEMEX guest worker program and PEMEX amnesty (but doesn't want to PEMEX call it amnesty).

I'm sure PEMEX he has ulterior PEMEX motives, but the real bad guys are people like Sensenbrenner.

--p!

[L. Coyote]

2. Will guest worker get to vote?

Bush wants workers who can't vote, but w/o alienating those who can vote.

Looks like a political tight-rope walk to me. And there's no net on this issue.

[L. Coyote]

3. Found this image:

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[Stinky The Clown]

9. That's a real road sign .... on the I-5 ... just before the checkpoint on

the northboud side, right north of Camp Pendelton.

In actuality, the sign makes sense. That's the area where they jump out of cars to get around the checkpoint on foot ... sometimes risking their lives to cross the 8 lanes of freeway.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. I don't know

Since this is a political football, and there are several bills floating around, there's no telling. But I would just assume that the very worst of the bills will be the one that gets passed, and the "coyotes" (That's their slang term for "illegal" -- did you pick your name "El Coyote" because of that?) will be the recipient of some good old-fashioned American business community Free-Enterprise screwing.

¡Bienvenidos á America! ¿Donde está la Vaselina?

I think this is a last-ditch effort by the GOP to save itself. It won't work. It will increase the hostility between the Mexican and the Anglos in the southwest, an unnecessary situation that has only ever helped corrupt politicians and businesspeople. It is very likely to cost a ton of money whichever way it goes. And it will make millions of people on both sides of the border miserable in the process.

--p!

[L. Coyote]

8. "coyotes" (That's their slang term for "illegal"

In immigration parlance, a "coyote" is a person who facilitates undocumented border crossing. A sneaky dog!

L. is Laughing, not "El", and in the sense of the trickster figure in many cultures, and some tricky politics (but never dirty tricks).

[Dogmudgeon]

10. Hmmm ... interesting

Thanks for the clarification.

I was aware that the coyote had an honored place in Mesoamerican folklore, but wasn't aware of the exact use of the term in immigration.

That trickster thing is cool in general, and AFAIK, it's universal. The impact of mythology is little-appreciated, but our culture is shot-through with it. We're not all that different from the mead-swilling, mullet-coiffed hell-raisers who came down the central Asian steppes 6000 years ago. (Well, I've got to admit, losing the mullets was an improvement.)

I'm afraid, though, that this nation is going to need quite a few of those positive tricks in the near future. The dogs we've got ruling the kennel are as mangy a bunch of curs as the world has ever seen.

--p!

[L. Coyote]

11. mangy a bunch of curs

<<< "The dogs we've got ruling the kennel are as mangy a bunch of curs as the world has ever seen." >>>

I was once told by an emminent thinker, "Noone can oppose the government alone."
My response was, "Everyone can oppose the government alone."

A few million of those fleas and the mangy curs will be in virtual doggie hell, squirmy with no relief.

We can all take a lesson from Karl Rove, and whisper, whisper, whisper, everywhere we go.

[madeline_con]

4. "Why do we build a wall on only one border?"

Wall? What wall?

EDIT: added:

Moving forward with the "guest worker" program is state-sponsored slave labor. Those who support it are the racists, not those who oppose it.

[L. Coyote]

5. The Wall of Futility and Folly

The wall that makes people cross in the middle of the desert instead.

The Wall of Futility and Folly, that wall. The Wall of Wasted Money!!

[L. Coyote]

7. "guest worker" program is state-sponsored slave labor

AGREED, and an improvement on "Wink-and-Nod" slave labor, easier to ship them off after the crop is in.

There is a growing fear of this demographic exploding into the voting age group. And now the die is being cast as to which group they will oppose/favor. Pandering to racism seems to be where a lot of the red state right is laying bets.