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LOS ANGELES MAN SELLS U.S.-MEXICO BORDER FOR .95
Dateline: October 18, 2006 ... Los Angeles, CA
Contact Name: Mark Sampson
Contact Phone: (310) 487-1970
Web Address: http://www.borderdirt.com
LOS ANGELES - October 18, 2006 - In response to the October 4th
signing of the Department of Homeland Security's Fiscal Year 2007
Appropriations Bill authorizing the first stage in the construction of
a .2 billion U.S.-Mexico border fence and Mexico's pending petition
to the United Nations to halt construction of a border fence, a
Southern California man is conducting a worldwide vote on the issue
and selling commemorative border dirt from the proposed site of the
wall for .95. "This is world history in the making," says Michael
Clark, a resident of Los Angeles who is conducting the vote and
selling the border dirt on his website, borderdirt.com. "No more open
border with our friendly neighbor to the south. No more 'Give us your
poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' It will be officially them and
us...this wall is kind of an Anti-Statue of Liberty."
When asked how he feels about having a security wall in his geographic
backyard, Mike himself is clearly divided, saying, "On the one hand, I
hate to see so many immigrants come across the borders and exploit our
schools, hospitals, health care and job market without paying taxes,
but on the other hand, we have to do something. The current plan just
isn't working, but I don't want to live in a country that spends a
billion dollars of our tax money on a wall that, by the way, has no
historical precedence for working! The Great Wall of China didn't keep
out the Mongols, the Berlin Wall didn't keep out the Western powers
and I'm skeptical that this wall will keep out immigrants."
Dealing with this controversial issue will impact the lives of
millions of Americans and Mexicans for generations to come. Will a
.2 billion dollar border wall really stop the flow of illegal
immigrants across the border?
Borderdirt wants everyone to cast their vote on building the wall at
www.borderdirt.com Mike and a group of volunteers plan to tally the
votes over the next three months and send a copy of the results to
President Bush, Mexican President Filipe Calderon and every member of
the U.S. Congress - They want to know how the world will vote!
Interested parties can also visit borderdirt.com to learn more about
border interest groups, find links to border related information, and
get their own border dirt.
Michael Clark is available for interview.
For more information, please contact Mark Sampson, MJCommunications,
by phone: (310) 487-1970.
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