Berlin Wall relic gets a ‘second life’
on US-Mexico border as Biden adds barriers
Associated Press News,
by
Elliot Spagot
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
9/5/2023 6:49:54 AM
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away.
The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean.
“May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” reads the inscription below the towering Cold War relic, attributed to Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero and titled, “A World Without Walls.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/5/2023 7:05:59 AM (No. 1549579)
Biden is not adding barriers on the border. A section of the border fence in San Diego is being replaced. The mainstream media lies again.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 9/5/2023 7:30:43 AM (No. 1549585)
I am so tired of stupid.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
smokincol 9/5/2023 7:33:54 AM (No. 1549586)
"Associated Press News, by Elliot Spagot" - obviously you, mr / mrs /.miss/ ms spagot have not been to the border to actually see the mayhem and dysfunction going on there and are only taking what information that is being fed to you in the WH press room - be a real "journalist" and hop on a 737 and head to McAllen, Texas and witness, first hand, the actual life on the border
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bighambone 9/5/2023 7:40:22 AM (No. 1549588)
There is a big difference between the old Berlin Wall and the Trump era borderline barrier that the Trump Administration started building on the USA side of the international borderline between Mexico and the USA. The Berlin Wall was built by the now defunct East Germans and USSR to keep the citizens of the then East Germany inside that country by stopping them en mass fleeing Communist control. While the borderline barrier along the Mexican border was designed and was being built to keep illegal aliens and smugglers of all sorts from smuggling illicit narcotics and all other sorts of contraband into the USA in violation of the U.S. Customs and Immigration laws. The article written by the AP is clearly misleading as Biden and the leftist Democrats are not building any effective borderline barriers along the Mexico-USA border.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/5/2023 7:53:25 AM (No. 1549604)
Screw you, Mexico. Nobody is crossing the Rio Grande to go into Mexico, just OUT of Mexico.
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Berlin Wall kept people “in”.
But expect AOC to come weep by it symbolically any time.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JrSample 9/5/2023 8:02:18 AM (No. 1549625)
She is making a stupid analogy. The Berlin wall was built to keep subjects IN their ''worker's paradise'' not to keep people out who were trying to get in. It is preposterous for any Mexican government official to criticize the US for enforcing lawful borders and controlling immigration. The Mexican government should be fixing their corrupt failed Narco-state. Mexico is rich in natural resources and human capital. If it was not for its' corrupt government's failure to maintain law and civil order along with a prosperous economy their people would not be fleeing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/5/2023 9:15:11 AM (No. 1549674)
One reason I have always denied that America has had a real war on drugs is the fact that we haven't invaded Mexico and wiped out the cartels that are in actuality running that country.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Zigrid 9/5/2023 9:44:44 AM (No. 1549697)
Oh...give me a break...the fake news are so out of touch...by using this bit of history to carry their water....so old....I don't put anything past them....
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Birddog 9/5/2023 10:16:47 AM (No. 1549724)
It is not it's "Second Life", it was bought, transported , imported, and used in numerous attempted money making schemes by an LA Advertising Commercial producer/marketer, did he donate it to get out from under storage costs? Or did he finally find a way to get PAID for it?
It is little more than a slightly taller "Jersey Barrier" ubiquitous on nearly every urban freeway, dwarfed by the Million Miles of recently constructed "Sound Walls" all across the country a multi Billion dollar boondoggle promoted as "Roads/Infrastructure "Improvement", but really a make work program with little to No actual function/purpose/benefit..
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
golferkeith7 9/5/2023 10:44:43 AM (No. 1549750)
Anyone that pretends not to know the difference between a wall made to keep its citizens captive and a wall made to control who enters their country is either a liar or a fool.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kono 9/5/2023 11:21:29 AM (No. 1549792)
Biden's "barriers" are symbolic, at best. They won't even slow down the invasion, any more than NFL defenses could slow the Redskins' rushing attack under coach Joe Gibbs. The scoring drives inexorably marched forward. Under Biden, the illegal aliens own the line of scrimmage...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/5/2023 1:50:16 PM (No. 1549929)
Biden can't poop by himself if he eats regular! He has done diddly squat since his first vacation and the denial of sainthood for his crackhead son.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 9/5/2023 3:34:10 PM (No. 1550006)
That title is a lie. Biden isn't adding barriers. He has been having gates WELDED OPEN, and selling off wall sections for pennies on the dollar.
AP is merely earning their "All Propaganda" label again.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Sully 9/6/2023 6:17:52 AM (No. 1550273)
Reminder: caravans of illegals weren't trying to sneak into Berlin for free stuff.
The Berlin wall was to keep legal citizens who had the free stuff from escaping.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
FLCracker 9/6/2023 9:39:54 AM (No. 1550386)
Is Mexico suggesting that the U.S. and Mexico are actually one country that need to be re-united?
I think we fought a war about that one.
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