In El Alberto, a small village over 1000km from the border between Mexico and the US, tourists can pay to experience what it’s like being an illegal migrant. Jo Tuckman joins a group as they attempt to enter ‘America’.
Surely, you can think of someone to send on this vacation of a lifetime.
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Jo can stop by my back yard and I will be glad to treat him like all of the other unwanteds and no risk of having to go to Mexico.
The real fun begins when you make it to the other side and work two or three menial jobs for low wages. After living in the U.S. for years washing floors, cooking food and looking after children you are dumped back across the border to placate xenophobic wingnuts.
Yeah, baby.
…and we wonder why many hate us?
Do they give you a bail of Coke to bring in ?
I would like to see a US citizen go from the US into Mexico. I wonder what the inside of a Mexican jail looks like?
@#2 I don’t see anyone pointing a gun to their heads and forcing them to be illegal immigrants. So “ohh what happens to those poor people?” is irrelevant – they chose to do it, same as those insane tourists.
Coming myself from the poor country I know many good poor people who would love to come to America to work but despite all of their wants would never even think of violating the law to do so. Because they see criminal behavior way more disturbing than their own poverty. America needs those people from whatever country in the World. America doesn’t need anyone willing to brake the law to do better. It is same what Madoff have done – just on another scale. Equally morally repugnant.
There are a few things in this life I consider pretty stupid.
Jumping out of perfectly good airplanes.
Getting a rush through asphyxia. (being strangled until you pass out)
Racing high powered cars on city streets. During rush hour.
Injecting yourself with home made drugs.
Attending a NAACP Conference dressed up in a white sheet and an American Nazi flag.
Seeing who can build a bigger bomb, you or your not too bright buddy.
Thinking Cow-Patty is a Fortune 500 executive.
and
Pretending you are a border jumping criminal. From Mexico. While in Mexico.
There they go, those horrible Americans once again proving to the world how evil they are by attempting to defend their own borders.
I love the “gunshots” they added to the audio track and the blindfolds they made them wear. All dramatic flair added to to make the US seem especially cold blooded and mean.
On the other hand, if Euro-lefty weenies love this stuff, then we can turn Gitmo into a profitable “vacation” resort, torture costs extra. That way these weenies can feel closer to their poor misunderstood terrorist brothers.
#8,
Hmm, as an American, I thought it would be an interesting ecotourism destination.
I take it you have never been to NASA, where they do basically the same thing, but into space, with a healthy dose of spreading Jesus to the aliens.
I highly doubt the tourists are truly authentic. Do the “coyotes” who sneak them across ever rape them and hold them hostage until their families pay a ransom? If not, they are cheated out of an authentic experience.
Are they forced to live in a house with 20 other people and sleep in shifts when they get to America? If not, they are cheated out of an authentic experience.
Are they forced to take jobs for less than minimum wage, or do they go work for their “cousin’s” restaurant for free? If not, they are cheated out of an authentic experience.
This is the dumbest tourism idea I have ever heard of. It sounds dangerous as well and makes light of all the things that make the real illegals desperate enough to come over here in the first place.
The best thing for everyone, if we want to clean up this immigration problem would be to clean up the corruption problem in Mexico, so that people don’t need to come over illegally.
This looks like more of a training exercise than a “tourist attraction”. I can see spinning this into a “terrorist training camp”
And then back to the hotel for frozen marguaritas.
For a really fun trip they should go to Guatemala and pretend to sneak into Mexico from the south. Now that is a hoot!