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Bananas crush floor of rig, killing 6 immigrants in Mexico [Central American illegals]
Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | June 5, 2007

Posted on 06/05/2007 3:51:52 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch

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To: SwinneySwitch

It is sad that people that are that desperate should be so vulnerable that these coyotes charge them so much and treat them so badly. I wish they would collectively gain the mindset , the national conscience, to stay home and work AS hard to change their circumstances, their government, their economy THERE so that they can be proud and participate globally fully with the natural resources that they have other than their strong backs! I guess that’s a dream will never come to fruition.

My stepdad was a long-distance hauler. He did haul loads of bananas. Mom says they had to stop at the border of California and Arizona and have the bananas ‘gassed’ for 40” before they could pass. Mom asked why she had to get out of the truck? ‘because the gas is toxic, lady!’ It’s meant to retard the ripening of the bananas so they won’t turn black before hitting the stores. Can you imagine what THAT would have done to the 200?

Guess their coyote didn’t think they needed that information.


21 posted on 06/05/2007 4:34:32 PM PDT by DancesWithCats
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To: Bob J

The coyotes are getting $15,000 to $20,000 for “SPECIAL” OTMs.


22 posted on 06/05/2007 4:42:45 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Terroristas-beyond your expectations.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Notice Mexico’s response.............Prompt deportation, no if ands or buts.


23 posted on 06/05/2007 4:47:29 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: SwinneySwitch
The number of undocumented migrants detained in Mexico rose from 138,061 in 2002 to 240,269 last year.

Bunch of bigots. Linda Chavez should write a story about them.

24 posted on 06/05/2007 4:53:20 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“Notice Mexico’s response.............Prompt deportation, no if ands or buts”

We do catch & release........


25 posted on 06/05/2007 5:03:13 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: Moonman62

“Bunch of bigots. Linda Chavez should write a story about them”

LOL!!


26 posted on 06/05/2007 5:05:26 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: SwinneySwitch
Day-o, day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Work all night on a drink of rum
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Stack banana till de mornin' come
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day...
Daylight come and me wan' go home

A beautiful bunch o' ripe banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Hide the deadly black tarantula
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day...
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Day-o, day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home

27 posted on 06/05/2007 5:17:44 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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To: Bob J
How does a poor Guatemalan get $7000?

- Selling illegal drugs
- Prostitution
- Robbery
- Various other criminal acts ...
28 posted on 06/05/2007 5:22:28 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: DancesWithCats

“....so that they can be proud and participate globally fully with the natural resources that they have...”

I used to feel that way here, Dances.


29 posted on 06/05/2007 5:41:00 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Quislings-beyond your expectations.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B37xvpQeI8
30 posted on 06/05/2007 5:56:20 PM PDT by lowbridge ("The mainstream media IS the Democratic Party." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: SwinneySwitch

How can you get 200 people inside a tractor trailer, much less under a false floor ?


31 posted on 06/05/2007 6:11:26 PM PDT by happygrl (Dunderhead for HONOR)
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To: lowbridge

BUMP for Bert!


32 posted on 06/05/2007 6:13:47 PM PDT by happygrl (Dunderhead for HONOR)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Yeah. It’s in the class of science fiction, innit?

sigh.


33 posted on 06/05/2007 6:52:51 PM PDT by DancesWithCats
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To: SwinneySwitch; martin_fierro; aculeus
Tons of bananas collapsed the false floor of a tractor-trailer smuggling migrants in southern Mexico

Obviously the fault of Curious Jorge.

34 posted on 06/05/2007 7:00:01 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: SwinneySwitch

Monkey want a banana?


35 posted on 06/06/2007 5:42:53 AM PDT by Mn_PatriotGuard
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To: SwinneySwitch

Recall this old saw?

Those folks had one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel.

It’s dangerous to try to slip in to this country.


36 posted on 06/06/2007 8:15:30 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: SwinneySwitch

Right. Bananas. How to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. Now you, come at me with this banana. Catch! Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. First of all you force him to drop the banana; then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him 'elpless.

Palin: Suppose he's got a bunch.

Sgt.: Shut up.

Idle: Suppose he's got a pointed stick.

Sgt.: Shut up. Right now you, Mr Apricot.

Chapman: 'Arrison.

Sgt.: Sorry, Mr. 'Arrison. Come at me with that banana. Hold it like that, that's it. Now attack me with it. Come on! Come on! Come at me! Come at me then! (Shoots him.)

Chapman: Aaagh! (dies.)

Sgt.: Now, I eat the banana. (Does so.)

Palin: You shot him!

Jones: He's dead!

Idle: He's completely dead!

Sgt.: I have now eaten the banana. The deceased, Mr Apricot, is now 'elpless.

Palin: You shot him. You shot him dead.

Sgt.: Well, he was attacking me with a banana.

Jones: But you told him to.

Sgt.: Look, I'm only doing me job. I have to show you how to defend yourselves against fresh fruit.

Idle: And pointed sticks.

Sgt.: Shut up. Palin: Suppose I'm attacked by a man with a banana and I haven't got a gun? Sgt.: Run for it.

37 posted on 06/06/2007 8:18:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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