BajaNomad

Yeah, that'll work

Oso - 9-15-2007 at 09:26 AM

This "public service" billboard has a clever concept. (Sorry I don't have a zoom lens) It says "With the Coyote nothing is secure, not even your life" with "no more crosses on the border" in the corner. The picture, if not clear to you, shows men, presumably illegals, trekking through the desert. The shadow of the first one looks like a coyote and the shadows of the others crosses.

Just one detail... This billboard is on the west side of Hwy 95 near Gadsden, AZ, about 4 miles north of the border. The sign faces north. So, to get the message one needs to be in the United States, traveling south toward Mexico. Maybe it's intended for the deportees aboard the "Green Stripe Express" that pass this way daily on their way to being dumped in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora.

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Oso - 9-15-2007 at 02:05 PM

Not so easy anymore. If they nab you a second time, they keep you awhile.

Arizona body count: 181 so far this year, mostly dehydration, sunstroke etc.

DENNIS - 9-15-2007 at 02:12 PM

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Arizona body count: 181 so far this year, mostly dehydration, sunstroke etc.

Don't forget stupidity.

Al G - 9-15-2007 at 02:26 PM

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Originally posted by Oso
Arizona body count: 181 so far this year, mostly dehydration, sunstroke etc.

Don't forget stupidity.
never underestimate , desire and used car salesmens..

DENNIS - 9-15-2007 at 02:30 PM

Thanks Al, but, if I want something, anything, I won't walk into a forest fire to get it.

danaeb - 9-15-2007 at 03:20 PM

Lucky you, Dennis.

DENNIS - 9-15-2007 at 03:36 PM

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Lucky you, Dennis.


Yes indeed. But, for the grace of God..........

Eli - 9-15-2007 at 03:55 PM

Oso, 181 found........................makes me wonder how many weren't.

I have a friend here in Oaxaca whose 15 year old son will more likly be going North in the next year or two. Pancho's dream is to go search for his father disappeared for 12 years now and of course the great green bucks.

When I talk with Maria, her greatest hope is that the reason her husband never came home is that he found another wife, another life..... Much perferable to the alternative, dead or in jail, ya know. Pues, ni modo.

bacquito - 9-15-2007 at 04:58 PM

I was traveling from San Diego to Calexico and noticed a number of bottles with flags. Are the bottles still being filled with water? I hope so!

Oso - 9-15-2007 at 09:50 PM

Stupid is an easy assessment for us to make from here, I live here and I spend as little time as I have to out of the AC from May to October. I do not equate lack of knowledge (or education) with lack of intelligence. The majority of the dead the BP scrape up in the Goldwater range come from Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, or other points south, where they have no experience or knowledge of the desert. Stupid? Maybe. Gullible? Desperate? Almost certainly, and ready to believe the coyote about the "short walk" across to I-8 where they'll be picked up for the last ride to glory.

DENNIS - 9-16-2007 at 06:58 AM

They've been desperate all of their lives. The consequences of entering the desert, middle of summer or winter, has been common knowledge to everybody within earshot of an immigration activist. That would be everywhere in Mexico. To ignore the well known facts of danger is nothing less than stupid. 181 people, this year to date, will agree. Illegal entry should be mandated to be a Fall or Spring event. The governments sanction everything else about the occurance.