Viva la Resistencia!

Our U.S. Mexico border wall is so disgusting, so embarrassing, and so odious that we've sort of stopped talking about it here at DL. It's the perfect symbol for us to bang our heads against, but we were just ending up bruised.

However, here's an item you should know about:

Mexico is creating an environmental reserve about 30 feet wide and 600 miles long on the Texas border, a “green wall” to protect the Rio Grande from the roads and staging areas that smugglers use to ferry drugs and migrants across the frontier.

How great is that?

A slightly more radical take can be found here.

Remember, until we screwed Mexico and other Latin American countries, just having vast expanses of open desert along the border was enough. Sure, people tried to come through these areas occasionally, but the back-pressure to get into the states wasn't strong enough to force people into these remote places. Now, people come, any way that they can, because they have no other choice.