Under BOO HOO, Who Cares...Fence to Separate Lovers...Get OVER IT

I wish Pro Illegal Alien journalists like Randal C. Archibold would stop trying to play on Americans sympathies, attempt to have us feel sorry for Illegal Aliens who are criminals. In another Who Cares article, Randal plays his harp strings as he tells the tale of Friendship Park. He uses phrases like, "...some of them unable to cross the border because of legal or immigration trouble, exchange kisses, tamales and news through small gaps in the tattered chain-link fence. " That sentence if factual correct, instead of being written to seek sympathy for those not deserving of it might read, "...some of them unable to cross the border because of criminal investigations or immigration trouble from when they as illegal aliens were caught and deported, exchange kisses, make plans to smuggle loved ones back across the border again in violation of law, share tamales and news through small gaps in the tattered chain-link fence, and sometimes pass illegal drugs to their state side family members to sell on the black market.

Friendship Park is about to become a distant memory because Homeland Security is going to put up a proper BORDER FENCE, and a steal mesh no man's land on the US side to keep out illegal aliens and drug smugglers. Some (those dating or married to criminals and illegal aliens) are upset...GET OVER IT, and who cares. If we did not have ten percent of Mexico's people here in America illegally, if President Calderon did not encourage his people to violate our sovereign borders, the fence probably would not be necessary.

New fence on U.S.-Mexico border will split a park

By Randal C. Archibold

Published: October 22, 2008

IMPERIAL BEACH, California: At a time of tumult over immigration, with illegal workers routed from businesses, record levels of deportations, border walls getting taller and longer, Friendship Park here has stood out as a spot where international neighbors can chat easily over the fence.

Or through it, anyway. Families and friends, some of them unable to cross the border because of legal or immigration trouble, exchange kisses, tamales and news through small gaps in the tattered chain-link fence. Yoga and salsa dancing, communion rites, protest and quiet reflection all transpire in the shadow of a stone obelisk commemorating the area where Mexican and American surveyors began demarcating the border nearly 160 years ago after the war between the countries.

"It's hard to see each other, to touch," said Manuel Meza, an American citizen sharing coffee and lunch through the fence with his wife, who was deported and now drives three hours for regular visits at the fence. "It's strange, but our love is stronger than the fence."

But in a sign of changing times, new border fencing that the Department of Homeland Security is counting on to help curtail illegal crossings and attacks on Border Patrol agents will slice through the park, limiting access to the monument and fence-side socializing.

In addition to the fence, a second, steel mesh barrier will line the border for several yards on the United States side, creating a no-man's land intended to slow or stop crossings.