BushCo’s Border Fence To Keep Out Illegals Being Built By Illegals

[tannybogus]

Is it possible to build a border wall without the help of the very people it is intended to keep out?

That's an open question all along the border, and especially in the Rio Grande Valley, where the wall is widely unpopular but is now becoming a reality. Although the 70 miles of planned fencing in the Valley still faces legal challenges, work on the first segments began late last month, leaving some of its critics resigned to the project.

Valley longtimers have cracked wise about the barriers, saying they not only won't thwart illegal immigrants intent on entering the country but that illegal labor will probably help build them. An estimated 8 million illegal immigrants already work in the U.S., and according to a Pew Hispanic Center report, about 1 in 5 were in the construction industry in 2006.

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Asked whether a border wall could be built on deadline without illegal workers, Vaughan, with the general contractors group, told the Brownsville Herald in June: "It's probably borderline impossible to be honest with you."

The remarks were widely circulated on the Internet and picked up by other news organizations. Some in cyberspace said they don't care who builds a border wall.

"I just want the damn fence built. ... I'll let the Libs and the Intellectuals sit around and worry about irony," one poster wrote on a conservative Web site.

"I was simply acknowledging that in the construction industry, a pretty significant percentage of workers are obviously undocumented," Vaughan told the American-Statesman.
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http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/local/08/11/0811fence.html

Irony - one of the growth industries resulting from BushCo :crazy:

[Romulox]

1. We live in a country in which labor laws are not enforced. Hooray? nt

[jakem]

2. I think i saw that episode of reno 911. nt

[Courtesy Flush]

3. Wasn't this a joke that Carlos Mencia stole? n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

4. That's rather Warsaw Ghetto in irony terms.