Sky Island Alliance

I think the comparison is quite apt. I just spent six of the last ten days wandering in a wilderness area on the border. When you see the impact of human migration on one of the wildest areas of southern Arizona, you feel the needs that would motivate people to risk life and limb for economic opportunity. In talking to someone more familiar ... See Morewith the area than I, he said "Hay mucho triste alla" in reference to the Pajarita Wilderness. There is much sorrow there. There is no insult in the comparison to which the above writer takes offense.

I would fully support our govenment's efforts to limit the migration if I did not know that our government supports regimes that oppress the populace. In essence we are contributing to the conditions that lead to the migration that we deplore. There is no doubt that US policies have contributed to the hardships of tens of thousands and the deaths of many. That is not nonsense, but fact.

Let's examine how we have contributed to the problem before we waste more money erecting a wall that is very much like the Berlin wall. Let's explore how we could help to alleviate the problems that create the migration before we build barriers that permanently damage the fragile ecosystems of the desert. Let's accept that the human migratory patterns that we oppose have existed in this area for at least 2,000 years before we cite boundaries that have been in place for 150 years.

Thanks for pointing that out. I have thought about that many times and remember growing up at the beginning at the Berlin Wall years. The US feeling was how dare the Russians build a wall. Now look at what we have done.