Hey Hillary, Barack: The Fence Is Going Up `Right Now-Right Now’

Brownsville Herald (Texas) ^ | 2/27/08 | JOAQUIN TIJERINA

[kiriath_jearim]

The 71st version of Charro Days is sure to be as festive as ever with all of its traditions and pomp and ceremony on display in vivid colors and lively celebrations.

But this year will be different in this respect: Brownsville’s famous and most enduring celebration will lie under the national glare of a brand of American politics that disses the very essence of Charro Days, which is to revel in the cultural and historical ties between U.S. and Mexican border communities.

The nativists and nationalists of the political right were on a roll a few years back, exploiting the 9/11 terrorist attack as the currency to push their views into the periphery of the American mainstream.

It worked well enough that those forces were able to ramrod a border fence bill into law, with a president and Texan who had long opposed such a thing folding up like a cheap tent in the face of the noisy right of his party.

And so it is that when locals gather up next year to enjoy the 72nd edition of Charro Days that a troubling quandry may well exist.

Festival goers may have to go through some sort of special access to gain entry through a border fence that will relegate the Charro’s sprawling carnival to the “Mexican side” of the wall.

[CindyDawg]

Not hardly. They come across legally as welcomed guests.

[popdonnelly]

Instead of a fence, make it a wall. Then we won’t have to listen to these whiners when we exercise our sovereignty.

[ruination]

Gotta love the imagery.

The anti-fence side:
"festive"
"traditions"
"pomp and ceremony"
"vivid colors"
"lively celebrations"

The pro-fence side:
"glare"
"exploiting"
"forces"
"ramrod"
"noisy"

[polymuser]

Media bias? There ain’t no stinkin’ media bias, gringo!

[Iron Munro]

People like this need to get their heads out of their butts.

To their way of thinking America should forget about controlling the border and stopping millions of illegals poring in every year because it causes them a small inconvenience once a year.

Is it more important for them to get their Mexican friends across the border to attend their local festival once a year or for the whole country to get a grip on the illegal alien traffic into the country that costs us all trillions of dollars?

Well, we know what their answer is but they are outvoted.
Let them throw the festival on the other side of the river or work out a plan to get one day visas to their Mexican friends.