You can't look at both sides of a coin at the same time...

The beat on immigration goes on, in opposite directions from the same mouths.

SSDD:

Romney blasts 'sanctuary cities', calls for tough immigration policy

The Salt Lake Tribune new services
Article Last Updated: 08/22/2007 01:35:57 PM MDT

New York Times News Service

Romney's campaign radio commercial in the early battleground states of Iowa and New Hampshire challenged the "sanctuary policies" of "cities like Newark, San Francisco and New York" that bar local police from alerting federal immigration authorities about arrests of undocumented immigrants.
At least 32 communities and counties nationwide have adopted sanctuary policies, according to a 2006 study by the Congressional Research Service. The cities include: Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Austin and Seattle.
"Sanctuary cities become magnets that encourage illegal immigration and undermine secure borders," Romney's campaign ad said.

And yet:

CAMILO MEJIA: The military is aggressively targeting Hispanics to join the military. Some people may have heard about the DREAM Act, through which the military hopes to recruit undocumented youth who are graduating from high school. The proposal is to serve two years in the military or go to college for two years and then get your green card, which 65,000 people who are undocumented and graduate from high school and are not eligible for financial aid from the federal government are not going to be able to go to college for two years. So, you know, this is one of the ways in which, you know, the military is targeting young immigrants, mostly Latinos, to join the military. You know, it’s -- again, it’s a poverty -- it’s an immigration draft that’s going on.

And yet:

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - The mayors of the Texan city of El Paso and the Mexican city of Juarez led a protest by dozens of people on Saturday against a planned border wall to stem illegal immigration into America.

The protesters held hands across the Paso del Norte Bridge, which spans the Rio Grande and connects the downtown cores of the two cities.

El Paso Mayor John Cook and Juarez Mayor Hector Murguia Lardizabal embraced at the top of the bridge.

So, we want to keep these folks out of the country but don't mind them enlisting in our armed forces to fight our ill conceived wars of preemption and aggression, not to mention cleaning our houses, mowing our lawns, and cooking that yummy mexican food we love?

This, my friends, is a classic example of wanting to have one's cake and eat it too.

Can't.

Be.

Done.

Who is gonna build that damn wall, anyway?

Life Imitating Art

Real life events on the U.S.-Mexican border last month are disturbingly similar to the storyline of a film from a few years ago, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. The only unfortunate thing is that there is no Pete Perkins to act as an agent of redemption for Ramiro Gamez Acosta's killer, Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett.



Corbett and the Border Patrol claim he was acting in "self defense". It looks like Acosta was cocking his arm to throw something. Like a rock, maybe? All that Corbett needed to do was point the rifle and say "Alto!", whether Acosta was aiming at him or the BP truck, which is what it looks like to me.

All that things like this are going to do are polarize each side even further without contributing anything to a possible solution...