Posted on 09/06/2023 7:16:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Who remembers the Berlin Wall and why it went up? Who remembers that East German guards shot men and women trying to jump the fence? I remember. Unfortunately, the mayor of Tijuana, Mexico played the wall card and chose the wrong wall to talk about.
This is the story:
Tijuana's mayor took a jab at US migrant policies by recently installing a 3-ton gray concrete slab of the Berlin Wall just feet from America's latest stretch of border wall.
"May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges," reads the inscription on the Cold War relic attributed to Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero.
The installation, titled "A World Without Walls," was erected Aug 13. in Friendship Park after Caballero was contacted by the owner of the artifact, Marcos Cline, looking to set it up in a poignant location.
"Why in Tijuana? How many families have shed blood, labor and their lives to get past the wall," Caballero asked of the US border wall.
"The social and political conflict is different than the Berlin Wall, but it's a wall at the end of the day. And a wall is always a sphinx that divides and bloodies nations," the mayor said.
A wall is a wall until you read your history and find it that not every wall is similar.
Mayor Caballero did not make the border situation better with her comments. She confirms historical ignorance and the arrogance of so many Mexican politicians, who always blame the U.S. for the border problem.
Why are people looking to leave Mexico? Why is Tijuana so violent? Why does Mexico allow its territory to serve as a corridor for human-trafficking and the drug business? Don't expect Mexican politicians to answer questions like that.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
[Tijuana’s mayor took a jab at US migrant policies by recently installing a 3-ton gray concrete slab of the Berlin Wall just feet from America’s latest stretch of border wall.
“May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” reads the inscription on the Cold War relic attributed to Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero.]
BRILLIANT!!!!! LOL
Mexico is not helped by the corrosive blend of Catholicism, socialism, lingering Aztec culture, and corruption that rules their society.
Yes the Berlin wall was to keep Communist hating liberty lovers from LEAVING. Mexico is only too glad to run a game on migrants with their Cartel controllers of the Mexican government. Human trafficking.
A piece of the Berlin wall is appropriate placed in front of the see eye ehhh HQ in Langley- because the outfit of THEN was much better fighting Commies than they are now— they are run by obamaumao-ites absolute world Marxists.
Libs here make the same idiotic comparison. The Berlin was to keep people behind the Iron Curtain from escaping. The wall here (or what’s left of it) is to keep invaders OUT.
<< The installation, titled “A World Without Walls,” >>
More precisely, the new world order types aim to have a world without BORDERS.
Somebody needs to remind the retarded pinhead that we Americans put up a wall to keep his people seeking “asylum” and “a better life” at home in his town. People don’t need bridges if the town they live in isn’t a craphole.
What is Mexico’s policy on how they handle illegal immigrants?
Do they give them free housing, clothes, education and spending money?
Also, IIRC, we as US citizens are not allowed to own property/ real estate in Mexico.
Let’s Start there.
“Why does Mexico allow its territory to serve as a corridor for human-trafficking and the drug business?”
Where there’s a demand, a supply will appear.
An ignorance that is shared with a majority of the ‘Murican population.
Most folks lock their doors at night, not to hold their family captive, but to keep criminals out.
The Border Wall was built by Trump to keep people out.
A subtle distinction for the Mayor of TJ, I'm sure, but eventually he'll figure it out.
I believe there is a saying that goes "if you want to see if your country oppresses people or not, build a wall and see which way they try to jump."
Mayor Caballero did not make the border situation better with her comments.
This is why I think most women shouldn't hold positions of power. She isn't simply ignorant, her arguments/comments are emotion based rather than on logic and reason. Emotion clouds reasonable judgements and resolutions.
There are walls that keep people in and walls that keep people out. One side of the wall tells you where the problem is.
Sure, when the other side is getting rid of their trash, another country’s “open borders” is a positive. But to the other country? All we’re getting is trash and it doesn’t seem like a bargain.
LOL that was exactly who I thought of instantly.
Damn. I assumed “her” gender.
Yeah I didn’t get that either. The East German commies built the wall to keep their people inside it. Trump tried to build a wall to keep illegals out. And we don’t shoot them. The ignorance of history is astounding.
We need to ‘wall off’ our money via constitutional caps on taxation and government borrowing [Warren Buffett style].
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.