A Look Back at Pioneering Protests against “The Wall”

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that it is the Executive Branch which enforces the laws of the land, not the Judicial Branch, the deportations the 2024 electorate voted for can proceed with fewer skirmishes between paper airplanes. The protests in individual locations will occur in their customary way, with sticks and rocks and Molotov cocktails and looting and arson. You know. In the most popular liberal way. In light of today’s events I went looking for my own coverage of the earliest liberal protests against the proposal to build a Wall along the entire southern border to prevent illegals from mounting some kind of absurd mass invasion. This was way back in 2006, when Bush was President and proposing something called Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which usually means lots of amnesties and thousands more illegals. When talk about a Wall got serious for the first time. Naturally, the liberals immediately identified this as a quasi-Nazi insurrectionist-type movement to enf...