US legislators screw up again

How dumb can you get. Now the U.S. is going to build a 700 mile long Berlin Wall. Maybe its a make-work project for the illegal immigrants. The article has some interesting observations about Mexico, El Salvador and Nicaragua. I liked this paragraph:

"U.S. legislators know this. And Bush, who is at heart pro-immigration but does not want to alienate his party, knows this. Most walls in the history of civilization were walls of necessity — the necessity to keep enemies or freedom away. This time, it's a wall of choice. The choice to be seen to be doing something that everyone knows will never work — and may perhaps never actually be completed because, by the time they figure out how to erect the fence across the rugged bluffs and ravines of southern Arizona, Mexico could become a first-world nation and gringos could be flocking to the south!"

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200661017034