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cymru am byth
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 26 Mar 2007, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
It's the immigration theme park
Sunday, March 25, 2007
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One lucky visitor gets the full border guard treatment
Gun-toting guards and angry bandits are not the welcome you might expect at a theme park.
But these are the people greeting the tourists and thrill-seekers who want to play at being illegal Mexican immigrants for the day and tense, dangerous night.
Visitors to the Parque EcoAlberto are put in the position of desperate workers struggling to escape across the Mexican border into the US.
They must hike through undergrowth, dash down steep hills and across rivers, and slip under barbed-wire fences.
Also, they must stay out of the crossfire of watchful border guards during the four-hour night-time ordeal known as 'caminata nocturna'.
Each visitor pays 200 pesos (£10) for the privilege, in contrast to the £750 that real-life people-smugglers can demand.
The theme park in Hidalgo, 193km (120miles) north of Mexico City, is actually a comfortable 1,126km (700miles) from the border.
And the worst punishment for anyone caught in the act is likely to be a few bruises and a little discomfort, rather than arrest and imprisonment.
Some groups have criticised the theme park organisers for trivialising the plight of those who try to escape to the US.
But according to Alfonso Martinez, who plays a people-smuggler in the game, the mock-escapes 'let people get a glimpse of the suffering that migrants endure'.
The theme park also offers river-rafting and more comfortable cabin accommodation, but more than 3,000 people have tried out the caminata nocturna so far. |
snufftelect
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 26 Mar 2007, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Beautiful! Many thanks for sharing! |
jaba
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 31 Mar 2007, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Reminds me of the 'Boat Run' from this country to America when Charlie Dickens was telling the world we are all gin soaked retards lol! |
Raidenator
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 31 Mar 2007, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
So let me get this straight, people pay to try and get across the boarder illegally? |
cymru am byth
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 31 Mar 2007, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
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Originally Posted by Raidenator
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So let me get this straight, people pay to try and get across the boarder illegally?
no, thats in real life, in this park they pay to pretend to try to cross the border, the park is 700 miles from the border |
MontysDouble
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 1 Apr 2007, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
I heard about this 'theme park' a while back. The whole concept is utterly surreal. Then again, so is the US government's 'border control' actions: There's some doublethink for you. By allowing illegals to cross the desert the US government maintains and grows the instant underclass of illegal immigrants, chiefly to the benefit of businesses. Make no bones about it: If illegals were a problem they would be stopped tomorrow.
I say: let them come legally to Australia. Treat them decently once they are here- for once they are here they are actually we. The issue is simply about labour rights and treating fellow human beings with compassion, fairness and dignity; as opposed to working them like dogs for a pittance and threatening to call the INS on them if they try to stick up for themselves. |
Leonidas
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 1 Apr 2007, 00:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
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Reminds me of the 'Boat Run' from this country to America when Charlie Dickens was telling the world we are all gin soaked retards lol!
that is too funny jabathug |
