Texas Immigrants Rally Against the Border Wall

If you check out the message boards at the ALIPAC website (American-Latino Immigrants Proudly Assisting the Community) you’ll find they don’t like websites like this one. The members of the website and discussion board are supposedly all legal immigrants who are contributing to our country. If that is the case, then the members and/or contributors to the website and message boards are due respect. They wanted a better life, legally came into this country and are expressing their opinion about anti-immigration websites. No problem with that.

However, there may be a hidden problem with the recent rallies popping up against the new border wall.  (You know. . . that wall they’re going to build to improve the security of our borders and help prevent illegal immigration?)

Betty Pérez, who appears to reside in or near Roma, Texas, is organizing a paddling event this weekend to protest the border wall. The organizer of the rally against the border is angry the view of the Rio Grande may be obstructed. The information was posted on the ALIPAC forums.

Scenic views are nice. Canoeing can be fun.

However, therefore, please do note . . .  could this be another “excuse” to allow illegal immigration? Just like the misleading “America is a nation of immigrants” line . . . used to promote the agenda of a political party appealing to voters (or potential voters) who need them.

Will the border wall completely ruin the canoeing experience? And is the scenic view more important than keeping our country safe and trying to enforcing our laws?

A better question would be: What are we supposed to do?

Are we supposed to fight for scenery over keeping terrorists out of our country? Are supposed to continue to allow illegal aliens to cross our borders, take our jobs, pay less taxes, get free hand outs and commit crimes?

If they could sensibly answer those questions, we could possibly look into making a see-through wall for that area. Unfortunately, the only answer for those questions is to secure the border and enforce our existing immigration laws.

Here is the press release for the rally against the border wall:

PRESS RELEASE

RALLY AGAINST THE BORDER WALL TO BE HELD IN ROMA, TEXAS

What: A community rally to oppose the building of a wall on the Texas/Mexico border

When: Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 10 a.m.

Where: Roma Bluffs overlooking the Rio Grande just in front of Roma City Hall, 77 Convent Street, Roma, Texas

Everyone is invited to the first in a series of Lower Rio Grande Valley community rallies to oppose the building of a wall on the Texas/Mexico border. The event is scheduled for Saturday morning, July 14, in Roma, Texas. Saturday’s rally will take place at 10 a.m. on the historic Roma Bluffs overlooking the Rio Grande. To get there, just follow the signs to Roma Bluffs and the World Birding Center.

Paddlers opposed to a wall that would limit access to the river for recreation are invited to bring their canoes or kayaks to the riverside in Fronton, Texas at 8 a.m. before the rally on Roma Bluffs. Fronton is a few miles west of Roma. This group will paddle as a flotilla to a take-out point below the international bridge between Roma and Ciudad Miguel Alemán and join in the 10 a.m. rally above. The paddle trip will take approximately two hours.

The rally will feature speakers, including a representative from the flotilla trip who will describe their experience on the river. From Roma Bluffs, rally attendees and paddlers will walk to the international bridge and form a hands-across-the-river line to Cd. Miguel Alemán to signify the close ties between border cities along the Rio Grande.
Organizer and river paddler, Betty Pérez, said, “We’re hoping to draw a large crowd on the Bluffs, and a large group of paddlers on the river to draw national attention to this issue. The beautiful view from Roma bluffs to the river and sister city, Miguel Aleman, and the site of a flotilla paddling down the river will hopefully do this. The idea of a wall between our countries is ludicrous, and it won’t work. Put that money into helping Roma, not making it less attractive to visit.”
More rallies are being scheduled in the following weeks in other cities along the river, including a rally in Brownsville, Texas on Saturday, August 25.

For more information and details about the Roma paddling trip and rally, contact Betty Pérez at ….

Link to ALIPAC Message Board Post