Posted on 10/18/2008 11:17:37 AM PDT by pissant
BORDER FIELD STATE PARK, Calif. -- Each face would be overlaid with the rusted chain links of the U.S.-Mexico border fence, but Jorge Ibarra snapped the photos anyway.
There was his cousin, holding up her baby boy for the family to see. There, his aunt, wiping her eyes under the shade of her parasol. And there, his grandmother, her face filled with joy as she touched her daughter's fingertips through the fence with her own.
Ibarra, 17, of National City, Calif., shot the family photos on a recent Sunday afternoon here, where the 2,000-mile line separating the United States and Mexico sinks into the Pacific Ocean. For years, Mexican American families have flocked to this beachside park to see, touch, hear and feed loved ones through the modest openings of the fence.
But the days of such reunions are numbered. Starting this month, construction of a more fortified barrier along the southern edge of the park and the three miles to the east will begin as part of the federal government's crackdown on drug and document smuggling, illegal crossings and violence in the surrounding area.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Don’t hire them ... they go home.
Get a passport and visit each other. That’s what everyone else does who don’t live in the same country.
*Fighting back tears.* Nice try Ashley, but your being young and stupid is no excuse for your pitiful attempt to make a comparison of the border fence with the Berlin Wall. Free history lesson for you Ash. The Berlin Wall was meant to KEEP PEOPLE IN. We don't have doors with locks on our homes TO KEEP PEOPLE IN. We have doors with locks to KEEP PEOPLE OUT and make it tough for them to come in and steal everything we have.
Oh boo freaking hoo. It’s our country and thank the Lord for patriots like Rep. Duncan Hunter.
Bang-bang-bang those fence posts.
Drill baby drill.
Nicely done, Congressman Hunter.
JoMa
Cry me a river.
BTW, this news:
Former Border Patrol Agents Up For Resentencing
Isaac Paul Vasquez - KFOX Weekend Producer
October 17, 2008
EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the resentencing of two former border patrol agents.The two agents were convicted of shooting a man near the U.S.-Mexico border.The resentencing was ordered after tossing out the agents’ convictions for tampering with an official proceeding.Ignacio Ramos’ resentencing will be Nov. 13 in El Paso, and Jose Compean’s will be Nov. 12.The two were originally sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for shooting Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in 2005.
Sorry!! wrong link.
http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/17749892/detail.html
Former Border Patrol Agents Up For Resentencing
“There was his cousin, holding up her baby boy for the family to see.”
JACKPOT BABY.
The meeting place would seem to only be of use to illegal immigrants on the U.S. side.
American citizens or legal permanent residents can easily travel to Mexico to visit their loved ones.
I really hate when the media tries to play on people’s sympathies as with the story of the man who goes to the fence to visit his wife and 5 year old daughter.
He broke our laws, invaded our country and ABANDONED his family. If he misses them so much, I will buy him a bus ticket home.
Pure green, fresh bovine waste in the fall no less.
Thanks for the heads up.
Unfortunately, since the "assault" charge (with a gun) was not dropped, I don't see them getting less than 10 years given mandatory sentencing.
What do you want to bet that Ibarra’s mother entered the US illegally and that Jorge is an anchor baby?
If they want to unite the family, try returning to Mexico.
It was a dark and stormy night along the border of fascist, Bushitler Amerika as “Manual Labor” stood under the crypto-conservative sign `Work Makes One Free’, but written in the dark language of Huntmordor which shall not be uttered in this straight elven news story:
“There was his cousin, holding up her baby boy for the family to see. There, his aunt, wiping her eyes under the shade of her parasol. And there, his grandmother, her face filled with joy as she touched her daughter’s fingertips through the fence with her own.”
With trembling fingers this brave old vieja ripped the simple peasant bodice from her sagging dugs ...
and so forth and so on.
That park is a sewer where the waste from TJ flows to the sea. It’s a disgusting swamp, not a park like they try to make it out in this article.
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McCain, Obama and the illegal aliens..
“How come neither one will talk about it?”
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