[Dog]

Please tell me this is illegal.

[isthisnickcool]

What do Moslems and Mexicans have in common? Muzzies do not recognize America as a soverign nation and neither do Mexicans.

[HiTech RedNeck]

On the back ankle, a drawing of Mexico's patron saint of migrants.

I guess this patron saint wants them out of Mexico?

[mewzilla]

I think she just painted a bullseye on the back of anyone dumb enough to wear them.

[stopem]

Boycott all her designer shoes!

[clee1]

Aiding and abetting a crime....

Sounds like a charge of "accessory before the fact" would be appropriate to me.

[Stand Watch Listen]

FYI...

[TomasUSMC]

Wheres a good shoe bomber when you need one.

[DustyMoment]

Their designer is Judi Werthein

San Diego - you know what you need to do.

[John O]

Can't we just have open season on non-uniformed enemy combatants crossing our borders? Maybe a 50 yard wide mine field backed by an electrified fence and automated 50's?

It just makes me want to neutron bomb mexico and most of the rest of the world. (Of course I've wanted to neutron bomb most of the world since the early 80's but this just reinforces that desire)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Werthein waved the insole and pointed to Interstate 8, the main road between San Diego and Phoenix.

Interstate 8 goes east to Casa Grande, not Phoenix. From Casa Grande, you can then take I-10 west to Phoenix.

The woman's actions are inexcusable. I wonder how she'd make out in a woman's prison?

[DumpsterDiver]

ping

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Their designer is Judi Werthein, an Argentine artist who moved to New York in 1997 - legally, she notes.

Somebody please tell me this woman can be deported.

[PeterPrinciple]

Why doesn't she use her money to sponsor these people legally? Oh, she doesn't really want to be involved?

[joesnuffy]

Make the invasion of the USA a felony then she is PTAC and a felony to boot...

Though I keep hearing we are at war so invasion of the USA during war time probably is a felony...

Though this is a little like hiring a security company to harden your house so they beef up the front door while leaving the back door open...kinda makes one wonder why?

[It's me]

"If people are going to cross anyway, at least this will make it safer."

Great argument! Can I play?

If people are going to smoke anyway, at least this will make it safer. Let's give 'em cigs.

If people are going to have sex anyway, at least this will make it safer. Let's give 'em condoms.

Who want's to play?

[gubamyster]

ping

[rmlew]

If she actually cared about Mexicans, she would have her shoes prodiuced in Mexico!

[AZ_Cowboy]

This is essentially conspiring to help another knowingly commit a crime. Is this not illegal?

Not that legality ever mattered much to these folks, of course...

[NYCVirago]

Only 1,000 pairs of the "Brinco" sneakers (it means "Jump" in Spanish) have been made - in China, for $17 each. The shoes were introduced in August at inSite, an art exhibition in San Diego and Tijuana whose sponsors include nonprofit foundations and private collectors. Benefactors put up $40,000 for the project; Werthein gets a $5,000 stipend, plus expenses.

Let me do the math here -- they used sweatshop labor in China, and even then, they still had $23,000 over, plus 1,000 shoes to sell? She must have a lot of "expenses"!