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WaPo: Border Fence Ruins Mother's Day for Mexican Families
newsbusters.org ^ | May 13, 2008 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 05/13/2008 8:19:10 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

If you are looking for an eyerolling, maudlin Mother's Day story, you don't have to go any farther than the pages of the Washington Post to get a doosie. You see, Ashley Surdin of the Washington Post gave us a tear-jerker of a tale about how the border fence between Mexico and the United States keeps Mothers from being with their children. Yes those mean Americans and their insistence on border security hurts Mommies. To that all I can say is, Oh brother!

In fact, the Post is even claiming that those poor Mexican Mothers can't put their fingers through that nasty, rotten fence to touch the tears on their baby girl's face because if they did they would be punished by the eeeevil U.S. government. And these poor, innocent Mommies are worried that things are getting worse because the U.S. is building "more fences."

Again, I have to say "Oh, brother." Are these people serious with this nonsense?

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1 posted on 05/13/2008 8:19:10 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

2 posted on 05/13/2008 8:23:35 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I can say one thing...........BOO FRIGGIN HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!


3 posted on 05/13/2008 8:23:52 PM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Cry me a river!


4 posted on 05/13/2008 8:24:56 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oh CRY ME A RIVER....with a fence running right through the middle of it.


5 posted on 05/13/2008 8:25:39 PM PDT by rottndog (Globull Warming "Science" = garbage in, gospel out.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Again, I have to say "Oh, brother." Are these people serious with this nonsense?"

or "Oh, MOTHER"

I have a solution to get mommie reunited with her baby. We take baby and poppa and we send 'em home to mommie. Wow! A solution. And look! I'm not even a brain surgeon!

6 posted on 05/13/2008 8:25:55 PM PDT by BloodOrFreedom
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DOH!
7 posted on 05/13/2008 8:26:34 PM PDT by rottndog (Globull Warming "Science" = garbage in, gospel out.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What border fence? The one they’re not building?

The only thing the Federal government hasn’t done is offer illegal immigrants escorts.


8 posted on 05/13/2008 8:27:21 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Concerned about the price of arugula)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Their children are recognized as Mexican citizens, are they not? Surely it wouldn’t be difficult for their children to travel to Mexico, yes?

Oops, I forgot - milking the US taxpayer for schools, healthcare, daycare, and so on, is far more important than being together on Mother’s Day.


9 posted on 05/13/2008 8:27:28 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Mexico is a MEAN country. They won’t let these children immigrate to live with their parents. For shame, Mexico. For shame.


10 posted on 05/13/2008 8:29:31 PM PDT by weegee (Osama Obama claims to have visited 57 states now. Can you say Potatoe Head?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

11 posted on 05/13/2008 8:29:52 PM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

Such a tragedy.

My heart, it is breaking.

No really.

12 posted on 05/13/2008 8:30:16 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg ("Shut the hell up, New York Times, you sanctimonious whining jerks!" - Craig Ferguson)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Since when is Mother’s Day a Mexican holiday?


13 posted on 05/13/2008 8:31:08 PM PDT by donna ("Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No one is stopping them from returning to Mexico to be with their children permanently.


14 posted on 05/13/2008 8:33:11 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Thank goodness for illegal aliens. I was really getting tired of the tremendous honorariums for knocked up unmarried mothers every Mothers Day.


15 posted on 05/13/2008 8:40:48 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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16 posted on 05/13/2008 8:51:02 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; Tennessee Nana

illegal alien ping!


17 posted on 05/13/2008 8:54:01 PM PDT by upsdriver (the maverick upsdriver is writing in Duncan Hunter for president)
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How about, “Illegal immigrants ruining life for American families?”


18 posted on 05/13/2008 8:56:05 PM PDT by villagerjoel (Give me liberty, or give me death!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
No mention is made of why "her mother, Francisca Rodriguez, a resident of Tijuana" can't just apply for a tourist visa and legally come across the border for a temporary visit and then go back after a few days instead of standing sadly on the Mexico side of the fence.
19 posted on 05/13/2008 8:57:22 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Pray for Rattendaemmerung: the final mutually destructive battle between Obama and Hillary in Denver)
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To: upsdriver

WOW...

Nobody thought to go back home to Mexico so Mommy would be wiff her widdle baby for Mother’s Day ????

And stay there ???

BTW Mother’s Day on the 2nd Sunday in May is an American celebration...

Anna Jarvis was NOT Mexican...


20 posted on 05/13/2008 8:59:05 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Illegals are the protected class, allowed to kill Americans while the elite looks on with praise.

Why should I pay taxes to a government that doesn’t do its job?


21 posted on 05/13/2008 9:00:38 PM PDT by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publici scholae)
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To: TruthConquers

Why should I pay taxes to a government that doesn’t do its job?”

I agree with you 100%.

Because they will come after us and if you resist, they will kill us.


22 posted on 05/13/2008 9:13:16 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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To: TruthConquers

Why should I pay taxes to a government that doesn’t do its job?”

I agree with you 100%.

Because they will come after us and if we resist, they will kill us.


23 posted on 05/13/2008 9:13:39 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Then, after whining that the fence is only "just wide enough to slip a hand or a homemade taco through" the Post regales us on how things are getting worse for these poor Mothers.

So where is the double fence that Duncan Hunter wrote into law? The one with an access road in between?

24 posted on 05/13/2008 9:19:06 PM PDT by upsdriver (the maverick upsdriver is writing in Duncan Hunter for president)
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To: philetus

Oh, I understand.

I was thinking the other day that if this country doesn’t do what the Constitution says it is going to do, like keep us from invasion, then are we really citizens?

I won’t claim that this would hold up in court, but the thought is to make clearer the reality that this country is not valid when it won’t even do its basic duty.


25 posted on 05/13/2008 9:20:37 PM PDT by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publici scholae)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This should be easy to solve. Get a retired NFL punter who needs a few bucks. Take the kids of the sad Madre and drop kick them kids over the fence into the loving arms of the Madre.

Everyone would be happy, no?


26 posted on 05/13/2008 9:31:48 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"WaPo: Border Fence Ruins Mother's Day for Mexican Families"

Yep, we wouldn't want to have a border fence that would ruin Mother's Day for some illegal trespassers now would we.

Apparently it would be better to destroy the entire country of the United States of America that to ruin some Mother's Day celebration for a few Mexicans that shouldn't be here in the first place.

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27 posted on 05/13/2008 9:56:49 PM PDT by R_Kangel (`.`)
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To: Liz; calcowgirl; Calpernia; indylindy; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; pissant; SoConPubbie; AnimalLover; ..

MSM Hispandering Ping!


28 posted on 05/13/2008 10:04:04 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
If I wanted to enter the U.S. from Mexico I would just disguise myself as a few kilos of cocaine. It seems to enter the country with no problem.
29 posted on 05/13/2008 10:12:18 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“WaPo: Border Fence Ruins Mother’s Day for Mexican Families”

I am playing the worlds smallest violin.


30 posted on 05/13/2008 10:51:24 PM PDT by Grunthor (Of two evils, choose neither - Charles Spurgeon)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Now THERE’S a sign we need to see more of!


31 posted on 05/14/2008 4:31:17 AM PDT by beachn4fun (I wish Laura Bush was running for President!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

The parents are at the wall to pickup the US govt benefits checks—the ones that don’t get sent to Mexico.

The kids are left behind to collect the checks made out to multiple ID’s and SS nos ar several addresses.

The kid are also rented out to new invaders to help them collect more bebefits——welfare, food stamps-——and those monthiy ADD checks.


32 posted on 05/14/2008 7:38:13 AM PDT by Liz (Without the brave, there'd be no land of the free. Senator Fred Thompson)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Gee - if they would have stayed in Mexico in the first place, they wouldn’t be having this problem, now would they?


33 posted on 05/14/2008 7:40:23 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Average White Conservative)
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