Posted on 09/29/2006 10:04:55 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
IXMIQUILPAN, Hidalgo — On a misty, moonless night, the group scurried down the canyon wall, their feet slipping in the an kle-high mud. The sirens grew louder as their guide, clad in a ski mask and known only as Poncho, urged them to run faster. “Hurry up! The Border Pa trol is coming!” A couple in matching de signer tennis outfits loped awkwardly along, the boyfriend clutching a digi tal video camera and strug gling to keep the pop-out screen steady. The 20 or so people flee ing the Border Patrol aren’t undocumented immi grants — they’re tourists about 700 miles from the border. Most are well-heeled professionals more likely to travel to the United States in an airplane than on foot.
They’ve each paid US$15 for what is perhaps Mexi co’s strangest tourist at traction: A night as an ille gal immigrant crossing the Rio Grande.
Advertising for the mock journey, which takes place at a nature park in the state of Hidalgo, tells the pretend immigrants to “Make fun of the Border Pa trol!” and to “Cross the Bor der as an Extreme Sport!”
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Dig the detail about the rousing rendition of the national anthem. So much for amusement park fun.
Is there a part of the simulation where someone can play the part of a U.S. National Guard soldier repelling boarders???
I'll do that for free...Or $20 USD...Whichever is cheaper...
I'll even go so far as to invite liberal aquaintances to play the part of a simulated "US Aid group" manning up "water stations"...
With simulated water of course...The real stuff will cost you $50 USD...a bottle...
I guess the coyotes play rape the smallest, most vulnerable female...? If the group is unruly, do they get abandoned in a box car?
How about a JOINT Adventure Park, where Americans PAY to play the part of the Border Patrol...? And they hunt the REAL Mexicans...?
Paint-ball guns, radios, quad-runners...?
It would DEFINATELY get pulses racing on both sides!
It sounds more like a how-to seminar.
LOL!!!
Now thats what I'm saying!
The problem is this topic sure didn;t take off like I figured it would...
[insert chirping cricket sounds effects] ;-)
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