Fence to break up family picnics

This is how Bush deals with the fact that he has a microscopic wiener.

On the Mexican border between San Diego and Tijuana, the Bush regime is erecting what it calls a secondary fence. It's a new fence in addition to the standard border fence. The fences are 90 feet apart, and the gap between will be a tightly patrolled no-go zone where no members of the public are allowed.

Why is the fence being built?

It's because families who have members who live in both the U.S. and Mexico have picnics at the border, and the government wants them broken up, even though nobody crosses the border during these gatherings. The picnics are for those who cannot cross: Most of the U.S. residents are newcomers who are having their immigration status adjusted, and most of the Mexican residents aren't yet able to enter the U.S.

So they picnic along the border and chat back and forth.

The gatherings harm no one. No immigration laws are broken, because nobody crosses. But the government says the $60,000,000 fence is needed because of "terrorism."

Regardless of your feelings on immigration, this fence is a pointless boondoggle that serves only to intimidate innocents and to mortgage the public's freedom to use the land between the fences. It serves nobody other than the Bushists' bruised egos.

Few in San Diego or Tijuana even want the fence. It's also opposed on environmental grounds.

But Bush likes to waste other people's money, I guess.

(Source: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20080924-9999-1n24monument.html)