Border Fence To Keep Out Illegals Being Built By Illegals

Firedoglake
and
 Blue Texan
August 12, 2008 Immigration

I'm going to file this one under "shit about the Bush administration you couldn't possibly make up."

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 ...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.
People in South Texas know what the deal is. It's happened before, after all:
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