Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When officials of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service decided to build two new stretches of wall, totaling 12.5 miles, along the 1,950-mile Mexican border, they thought they were merely mending fences, not wrecking U.S.-Mexican relations. After all, the reason an estimated 1 million Mexicans enter the U.S. illegally each year is that most existing fences have been knocked down, shot full of holes or simply hauled away. Indeed, the new barriers might have gone up unnoticed had not the builders boasted that "anyone barefoot" seeking to climb over the razor-sharp wall would "leave...
...high fence is intended to wall off two sections, totaling 12.68 miles, of the 1,950-mile U.S.-Mexican border that are most frequently crossed by illegal immigrants. The first is a 5.98-mile stretch from the Pacific Ocean, across Dead Man's Canyon and Washer Woman's Flats to Airport Mesa near Chula Vista, Calif; the second, 6.7 miles of border running along the American side of the Rio Grande through downtown El Paso...
Whether the fence will actually keep out illegal immigrants is an open question even to Norris. Said he of the immigrants: "They'll run cars through it or put a cutting torch to it." Or simply walk around it. Mexican Americans regard the fence as insulting. Said Vilma Martinez, president of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "With all due respect to Robert Frost, good fences do not make good neighbors...
BACK IN 1972, however, Tower did cast a good vote for bilingual education, and he has been making political mileage out of it ever since. Mexican-American radio stations have been inundated with ads touting the vote. There are billboards plastered all over the Spanish-speaking parts of town that say "Tower, Con Nosotros." Tower, he's with...
Perhaps the most unfortunate feature of Goin' South is its unfulfilled potential. Nicholson cast John Belushi in a minor role as a Mexican deputy sheriff of Longhorn, and the possibilities of this team could have been endless. Instead, Belushi pops up in only a few scenes where he can show off his Mexican accent and look sleazy. Expanding the part, or casting Belushi in a more prominent role, might well have saved the movie from becoming a low-budget exercise in the training of Jack Nicholson, director. But that's just how it wound up: filming more of the familiar...