Posted on 11/01/2017 11:39:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
TIJUANA, Mexico - U.S. President Donald Trump’s wall is far from built but towering concrete and steel prototypes in San Diego are making Mexicans living just south of the border feel his campaign pledge has turned them into “pariahs.”
Opposite San Diego, residents of the Mexican city of Tijuana, where homes, companies and parks abut a corrugated steel fence on the border, dread the prospect of work on a permanent wall.
“People are still going to cross out of necessity even though they view us as pariahs over there,” said student Paola Gomez, 21, standing outside her home as the noise of workers putting up the sections drifted across the border.
“That’s how it looks with things like (the wall): they view us as pariahs. The worst thing is, it’s being built by Latinos themselves.”
Tijuana locals said they heard Spanish-speaking workers helping to build the prototypes, driving home the irony that Latino labor was being used to deter immigration from Latin America.
“They need Mexicans and other undocumented people. They save lots of money with us,” said Manuela Altamirano, 42, who watched from her home as the strips of wall went up. “Trump constantly does things to humiliate the Mexican people ... These walls are like monsters he created, like a border Frankenstein.”
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“These walls are like monsters he created, like a border Frankenstein.”
This makes my day.
Dismay more Metskins.
Proves that it is a good thing and part of the solution.
Make them pay for it by taxing all those dollars the illegals send home to mexico.
And they’re going to pay for it.
They are used to wishy washy Presidents who lie to the American people.
TFB
Keep your slime home then.
“the concrete rectangles created a depressing landscape, said Tijuana resident Alexis Franco, 22, who watched their construction since it began in late September”
I thought that was what graffiti was for.
I am more DISMAYED at how slow the wall is being built. Let’s go!
Do you think it might have dawned on them of the coincidence of the prototype completions nd what day it was they were commenting?
If they respected our laws, there wouldn’t have been a need for a wall.
P A T H E T I C
They can blame their own government for this situation.
Just who the hell is “They”?Your average American saves nothing because of illegal aliens taking jobs from American taxpayers and increasing spending on health,education and law enforcement.
——And they’re going to pay for it.——
I’m still trying to figuire out how that is going to happen...
Not holding my breath...
It has nothing to do with anyone but your Representative and Senators.
There is an existing border wall. It was started in 1994 under Clinton. Both H. Clinton and Obama eventually voted for it. Construction stopped during the Obama years.
Were the Mexican dismayed then? Was it racist to vote for the wall?
Only when it’s Trump’s idea.
“they view us as pariahs over there”
Very few view you as pariahs, that is the left demonizing and projecting how the right view immigrants.
I welcome anyone who wants to assimilate, work hard and loves this country.
Commit a serious crime, and you’re out.
The border there is a mess. The wall will improve the view.
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