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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Alpha Mare on October 31, 2009, 06:04:17 AM

Title: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: Alpha Mare on October 31, 2009, 06:04:17 AM
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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.

The protest coincides with preparations for Mexico's Nov. 1 Day of the Dead holiday. The crosses represent the number of migrants estimated to have died in the 15 years since the United States toughened border security.

The Mexican government estimates about 350,000 of its citizens migrate to the U.S. annually.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sns-ap-lt-mexico-border-deaths,0,1808807.story

They neglected to mention how they died. 
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: NHSparky on October 31, 2009, 06:42:07 AM
Or why they were coming here in the first place.
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: JohnnyReb on October 31, 2009, 06:48:31 AM
Or why they were coming here in the first place.

It's the old "Blame America First" thing...sounds like a liberal organization name doesn't it.
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: Flame on October 31, 2009, 07:00:55 AM
Don't want to die crossing the border becasuse it's too dangerous with no water, etc. then here's an idea....DON'T CROSS THE BORDER!
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: thundley4 on October 31, 2009, 08:11:13 AM
5100 over 15 years is a minuscule number compared to the number of Mexicans dying in their own country from the drug wars there.
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: IassaFTots on October 31, 2009, 08:22:31 AM
5100 over 15 years is a minuscule number compared to the number of Mexicans dying in their own country from the drug wars there.

And considering that we get somewhere around 350K annually. 
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: thundley4 on October 31, 2009, 08:24:29 AM
And considering that we get somewhere around 350K annually. 

Look on the bright side, it's 5100 less criminals. How many crimes are committed each year in this country by illegal aliens?
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: IassaFTots on October 31, 2009, 08:25:54 AM
Look on the bright side, it's 5100 less criminals. How many crimes are committed each year in this country by illegal aliens?

Exactly. 
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on October 31, 2009, 08:40:56 AM
We should stack the crosses 8 feet thick and 25 feet high...

...and top them with razor wire.


THAT would prevent this tragedy from happening again. It's a win-win.
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: Chris_ on October 31, 2009, 02:38:54 PM
Look on the bright side, it's 5100 less criminals. How many crimes are committed each year in this country by illegal aliens?

At least 350,000 a year, according to the article.
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: Chris_ on October 31, 2009, 02:49:42 PM
We should stack the crosses 8 feet thick and 25 feet high...

...and top them with razor wire.


THAT would prevent this tragedy from happening again. It's a win-win.

I have one word......Claymores.......every fifteen feet.

doc
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: Thor on October 31, 2009, 10:02:28 PM
I have one word......Claymores.......every fifteen feet.

doc

No, that's too wide of a spread.
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: deportliberals on November 02, 2009, 11:05:33 AM
Who gives a sh*t how many illegal alien invaders died trying to get here!  The corrupt mexican government has been exporting its poverty to this nation for more than three decades.  And our corrupt government has been doing almost nothing about it!

 
Title: Re: Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on November 02, 2009, 11:10:33 AM
I was disappointed to read that they were hung on the fence, I was hoping they were driven into the ground so we could string barbed wire between them.