Those who criticized America's wall along its frontier with Mexico . . .

are building one along Europe's frontier with Turkey!

Greece is planning to build a fence along its border with Turkey in a bid to keep out illegal immigrants, Citizen Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis said in an interview on Saturday.

"Cooperation with the other EU states is going well … now we plan to construct a fence to deal with illegal migration," he told the semi-official Athens News Agency ANA.

In the six months up to the end of November, 33,000 illegal immigrants have been detected crossing the Greek-Turkish land border. Most are from Afghanistan, Algeria, Pakistan, Somalia and Iraq.

Papoutsis said the 128-mile-long fence would be like the one erected by the United States along its frontier with Mexico.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700096795/Greece-planning-border-fence-with-Turkey.html

Note how America is supposed to allow in millions of illegal immigrants, but Europe builds a wall after detecting 33,000!

South of the border, down Mejico way

The mother of four raised a finger, pointing out abandoned and stripped concrete homes and counting how many families have fled the Western Hemisphere's deadliest city on her street alone.

"One, two, three, four, here, and two more back there on the next block," said Laura Longoria.

The 36-year-old ran a convenience store in her working-class neighborhood in south Juarez until the owners closed shop, fed up with the tribute they were forced to pay to drug gangsters to stay in business.

Her family vowed to stick it out. But then came the kidnapping of a teen from a stationery shop across the street. After that, Longoria's husband, Enrique Mondragon, requested a transfer from the bus company where he works.

"They asked, 'where to,'" he recalled. "I said, 'Anywhere.'"

No one knows how many residents have left the city of 1.4 million since a turf battle over border drug corridors unleashed an unprecedented wave of cartel murders and mayhem. Business leaders, citing government tax information, say the exodus could number 110,000, while a municipal group and local university say it's closer to 230,000 and estimates by social organizations are even higher.

The tally is especially hard to track because Juarez is by nature transitory, attracting thousands of workers to high-turnover jobs in manufacturing, or who use the city across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, as a waystation before they slip north illegally.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40844625/

Only a fool believes this violence will not eventually cross our open border with Mexico.

Another country that objects to U.S. immigration policy

Thousands of desperate Zimbabweans are scrambling to South Africa's registration offices with only a day left to legalise their stay in the country - or face deportation in the New Year.

South African authorities declared in September that they were cracking down on illegal migrants and said any Zimbabweans who had not applied for the necessary papers to live and work here by 31 December would be forced to go home.

But as feared by authorities, many left applying for work or study permits until the last minute.

Long queues this week snaked for two blocks outside a Department of Home Affairs building in central Johannesburg - one of the many offices overwhelmed by large crowds of Zimbabweans.

Many people had spent the night on the pavement, in an attempt to be one of the first to be served when the office opened its doors at 0800.

Thousands of people, including the elderly and women with babies on their backs, braved the scorching heat as the queues inched closer and closer to the entrance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12090722

For some reason, only America is not allowed to enforce its immigration laws.

Another failing left wing regime

Police in Bolivia used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who took to the streets protesting a hike on the price of fuels Monday.

The price of gasoline has risen 73 percent while diesel fuel rose at least 80 percent.

The unions representing the public transit workers called for an indefinite national strike in protest which was partially successful Monday.

Bolivian President Evo Morales defended the increase, saying it was needed partly because of Bolivian fuel being sold illegally to other countries, the state-run news agency ABI reported.

The government had frozen the price of gasoline and diesel for six years and subsidized the cost -- making the fuel a lot cheaper than in neighboring countries.

As a result, trafficking in fuels made it a very profitable business, said Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/12/28/bolivia.gasoline.strike/index.html

Every one of these south American left wing authoritarians promising to regulate their people out of poverty eventually makes things worse for the poor.

While we waste our time and effort in Afghanistan . . .

Gunmen believed to be linked to drug cartels killed four police officers and a doctor in apparently coordinated attacks in and around the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, authorities said Thursday.

Three officers were wounded in Wednesday's attacks, said Jorge Domene, a spokesman for the security council in northern Nuevo Leon state, where Monterrey is located.

In one of the attacks, gunmen opened fire on a Monterrey police station, killing a medical doctor who was administering tests to employees at the station and wounding three officers, Domene said.

In two additional, separate attacks carried out within minutes of each other in the Monterrey suburb of Guadalupe, gunmen killed two police officers, a man and a woman.

http://www.valleymorningstar.com/articles/mexico-86119-monterrey-officers.html

In the long run, we will be more impacted by events and unrest in northern Mexico than southern Afghanistan.

The corrupt auto czar

Quadrangle investment group founding partner and former Obama "auto czar" Steven Rattner agreed Thursday to pay a $10 million fine in a settlement with the New York attorney general's office over a pension fund scheme.

Rattner was accused of a "pay-to-play" scheme involving New York's pension fund, in which Rattner's Quadrangle allegedly gave kickbacks to officials if they directed state pension money to the fund.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/30/news/companies/cuomo_rattner_settlement/index.htm

What kind of nonsense to you think this guy tried when he was in charge of billions of taxpayers' dollars and the entire U.S. auto industry with no oversight and no accountability?

More Islamophobia

The latest bloody attack on Iraq's Christians was brutal in its simplicity. Militants left a bomb on the doorstep of the home of an elderly Christian couple and rang the doorbell.

When Fawzi Rahim, 76, and his 78-year-old wife Janet Mekha answered the doorbell Thursday night, the bomb exploded, killing them, Mekha's brother told The Associated Press on Friday. Three other people, apparently passers-by, were wounded.

"When I went there, I found both of them cut to pieces near the gate of their house," said the brother, Falah al-Tabbakh, 47, who had been at a funeral nearby in the eastern Baghdad district of Ghadir. He rushed to his sister's house after neighbors called him, and they told him what happened, he said.

The bombing was among a string of seemingly coordinated attacks Thursday evening that targeted at least seven Christian homes in various parts of Baghdad that wounded at least 13 other people, a week after al-Qaida-linked militants renewed their threats to attack Iraq's Christians.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/30/1994149/gunmen-target-christian-homes.html

Remember - - according to Time magazine, the real problem is unreasonable, pervasive, vicious American Islamophobia.