Where’s our wall?
May 30th, 2006
As the US midterm elections approach, Carl Hiaasen has a pertinent question:
Sen. Mel Martinez is getting bricks in the mail from people who don’t like his immigration stance.
The bricks addressed to the freshman Republican often come with a curt message scrawled in black marker: “Build a wall. Secure the border.”
According to Martinez’s staff, some of the 200 bricks have been sent from Florida, Martinez’s home state and a prized destination for illegal immigrants. An estimated one million undocumented aliens live here.
Florida’s border measures 1,197 miles. That’s only about 50 miles shorter than the border that Texas shares with Mexico, a border that many of the brick-senders want to barricade.
While Congress is prepared to spend a fortune enhancing the border walls and fencing in the Southwest, no such plan is in the works for the Sunshine State.
Where the heck is our wall? […]