Crossing the Border, Disguised as a Tree

In the sad story of Mexican immigrants trying to cross the border, it seems creativity flourishes. An AP article today tells of the ways in which people are disguising themselves to get into the U.S.

Here’s one of the oddest:

”In Texas, authorities once found a man rolling down a street disguised as a tumbleweed.”

Ookay. Seems altogether bizarre…and unwieldy.

I heard a report on the radio the other day that some idiots in Texas are strapping on their guns and pretending to be border control. I think it’s Human Rights Watch who are down there to make sure these men don’t do anything untoward toward immigrants, but being there in the first place, secondo me, is untoward enough.

It’s a terrible plight for border crossers—the sun, the heat, the animals in the night—I have unending sympathy for those who want a better life, and unending scorn for the assholes who think that only they are Americans, because (probably) unlike their parents or grandparents, they were born on this soil. Assholes.