As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away.
The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean.
“May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” reads the inscription below the towering Cold War relic, attributed to Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero and titled, “A World Without Walls.”
The irony…
Difference is that the one divided a country in two the other is dividing two different countries.
They were two different countries at the time. That’s like calling the Koreas a divided country.
Feel free to educate me then. How were they not two different countries at the time? The U.N. recognized them as such.
Not true. Germany was divided into two countries by the allied forces and Russia after WWII…
It is CIAs operation. Cartels own Mexico, CIA owns the Cartels.
Close the border, stop the flow, and criple the CIA.
Call me crazy, but I think there might be an easier way to control the CIA.
You think a wall will stop the CIA or cartels? You naive sweet summer child :P
Why not remove power from the CIA directly?
At any rate, enforcement policies simply do not work in terms of effectiveness or money. Read Narconomics by Tom Wainwright. He’s an economist who looks at the drug trade like an industry, and he’s got a pretty thorough breakdown of how much these policies cost versus their effectiveness.
Not to mention that the way the CIA justifies itself is by claiming to protect us from all these shadowy evil foreign organizations coming to take your rights. Going all in on a border wall is pretty much endorsing their propaganda wholesale. It’s exactly what a lot of these CIA ghouls want–more money for their buddies in ICE.
Why is Biden still building the fucking border wall? It’s absolutely disgraceful.
From the same article:
President Joe Biden issued an executive order his first day in office to halt wall construction, ending a signature effort by his predecessor, Donald Trump. But his administration has moved ahead with small, already-contracted projects, including replacing a two-layered wall in San Diego standing 18 feet (5.5 meters) high with one rising 30 feet (9.1 meters) and stretching 0.6 mile (1 kilometer) to the ocean.
So the federal government is just honoring contracts it already signed and agreed to. I see no problem there so long as he doesn’t do any more additions beyond what was contracted already.
I almost wonder if the contracts were awarded late in the last term with the expectation that the new admin would cancel them and have to pay huge contract termination fees. Thus earning these firms large amounts of pure profit (no labor and no materials).
Instead the Fed seem to be saying “OK, you say you can build a 30 ft wall 1km into the ocean? Let’s see.”
Politicians think countries only hold people. Those that are a bit smarter understand that there are wild animals living within political boarders. A population that’s a bit smarter knows that these animals move and migrate around and across the previously mentioned political boarders. So, can at least some of us agree that border walls fuck up migratory patterns and are bad for nature?
