Posted on 07/15/2007 7:44:11 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Group forms human wall in protest of border fence
Local residents gathered Saturday afternoon on the banks of the Rio Grande near Alice Hope Park to protest the government’s construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
And, their message was clear: “say no border wall,” as the group linked their hands forming a human wall.
The groups of more than 100 demonstrators marched down Elizabeth Street as they headed toward the Jacob Brown Auditorium on International Boulevard.
Jorge Martinez, a student at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, said the construction of a border wall would be a burden to tax payers, and stood firm on his word that he did not want for such a wall to go up.
“It sends a bad message to the rest of the world,” the junior communication major said. “China tried (built a wall) and it didn’t work.”
Martinez is skeptical a border wall would be the most appropriate solution to stop the immigration spill into the U.S.
“The Berlin Wall (did not work),” he said. “People risked their lives to get across, (in Germany) and some people lost their lives.”
Martinez said nothing will stop immigrants from coming to the U.S. looking for what he calls the “American Dream.”
He does support the concept of a “virtual wall,” which would allow U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents to keep a watchful eye on the close to 2,000 miles of border, which stretches from San Diego, Calif., to Brownsville, through the use of radar, high-technological computer advances and satellite, among others.
However, Martinez, said the most efficient way to find a solution to immigration would be an immigration reform that would grant amnesty to the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
Mario Garza, another student at UTB-TSC, yelled “no to the border wall,” while the group marched down Elizabeth Street.
He asked, “Do you think a wall is going to stop it (immigration)?” And then yelled, “no,” as crowds cheered him on.
Cameron County Judge Carlos H. Cascos was also in attendance at the rally and told the crowd that late last week, while in Washington, D.C., he learned some officials there, are also opposed to the construction of the wall.
“Salomon Ortiz, (D-Corpus) is against the wall,” Cascos said. “We have to do something, we have to protect our border.”
He suggest the building of a “much-needed” weir on the banks of the Rio Grande, which would allow for a reservoir for water, and if a hurricane were to ever make land fall in the area, the weir would help collect water.
“The water has no place to go right now,” he said. “Our levee system can not support a category three hurricane.”
The group chanted and yelled as the young hit a piñata in the shape of a wall in front of the Jacob Brown Auditorium.
When the piñata broke, the group yelled and cheered, “no border wall, no border wall.”
J. Johnson Castro, a grassroots activist, said no border wall is going up anytime soon.
“We are going to tear the wall before it’s built,” he assured. “We are opposed to the wall.”
It's spelled SOLOMON, JOSÉ!
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Um, the Iron Curtain mostly did work. It kept 99.9999999999995% of the people who wanted to leave the East in.
Sure, a few people did get around it, but not many. A wall or fence won’t completely stop the flow of illegals - but then we shouldn’t be building the wall by itself. We should support it with patrols and sentry guns - and even the wall by itself should greatly reduce the numbers of illegals.
Is this a joke? China built a VERY effective wall that kept the animals at bay for hundreds of years.
OK. Build the fence north of them and call it a day.
Umm, actually the Berlin wall worked spectacularly well. Especially the tower gun turrets and the no-mans land areas on both sides. So well that only about 100 people made it across in roughly 40+ years.
I’d say our Mexico bordoer wall would be a raging success if we got these kind of stats.
Well, I guess if Jorge Martinez, Mario Garza, Carlos H. Cascos, and Salomon Ortiz are against the wall, then that settles it.
Jose obviously possesses a fine USA G-12 education.
That was my stumbling block as well. From what I understand, China’s wall was pretty dang effective.
And yeah, definitely, build the wall to the north of them and call it a day. This march was so full of buffoons it makes be sick.
See tag.
Let’s see:
Jorge Martinez, Mario Garza, Cameron County Judge Carlos H. Cascos, Salomon Ortiz, (D-Corpus) and J. Johnson Castro, a grassroots activist...
= South Texas ??
Just build the wall, and if Jorge Martinez,Mario Garza and J. Johnson Castro get in the way,use them as supports for it !!!
Nuevo Mexico my friend. If it weren’t for the military base down in Corpus we’d have completely lost South Texas long ago.
As far as I can tell they have almost completely overrun everything up to and including San Antonio then northwest from there to the north of El Paso.
Basically we only really own about half the state now, thanks to the elite bumbling idiots both in Washington and in the state legislature.
Jorge Martinez, a [junior communication major] at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, said .... “It sends a bad message to the rest of the world,”
Jorge Martinez is sending a bad message to future employers who will Google his name and school.
You'd think a communication major would realize this.
I think that Austin was overrun too...
Wonder if he is kin to zee jorge bush?
The north side is still in pretty good shape, but you’re probably right. Of course it’s also overrun with socialists, communists and globalists, but who’s counting.
Can you say border wall and have those people step a bit so they will be in their own country.
bwhahahaa a powerful triumvirate indeed and a hundred followers...to boot...swashbucklers ....gingus khan had nuthin on these 3 caballeros de la luna...
Who said Berlin wall didn’t work? It did prevent millions of East-Berliners to cross the line. Yes, of course there’s always some people who tried, and were succesful, but if the wall can halt half of the current flow from Mexico, it’s still better.
The reason these idiots don’t want a wall is because they are so close to the border. Crimmigration does not effect them as much as it does those a few hundred miles away from the border. Crimmigrants do not stop just inside the U.S., they try to get as far into the country as possible, the same as leaving the scene of the crime.
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