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    Filmmaker not on fence about border wall

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/met ... 96755.html
    JFK's niece made La Barda to protest policy
    By PEGGY FIKAC
    HOUSTON CHRONICLE
    Sept. 12, 2010, 7:53AM


    Producer, director and writer Rory Kennedy, co-founder of Moxie Firecracker Films, had the Texas premiere of The Fence (La Barda) last week at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum at the University of Texas at Austin. An engaged audience threw her and producer Keven McAlester a range of questions regarding her views on immigration and the documentary, which takes a critical look at the effect of the border fence. The documentary debuts Thursday on HBO. Kennedy spoke recently with Austin bureau chief Peggy Fikac. Here are excerpts from the interview:

    Q: What drew you to this issue? Why The Fence?

    A: I had gotten a phone call from my friend, Douglas Brinkley, who's a historian-writer, and he was then a visiting professor at the University of Texas in Brownsville. They were proposing to put the fence right in the middle of the campus, so kids were going to have to take their passports to get from one class to another to cross over the fence. I ... started my own research and found that the more I learned about the fence, the more absurd it seemed — but, of course, the more tragic, too - because there was a significant increase in the number of people who are dying trying to now cross the border.

    Q: Early in the film, you use footage including John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan talking about the Berlin Wall to support the idea that the fence is not true to the American spirit. How is that comparable, since the Berlin Wall was built to keep people in and the U.S. border fence is to keep people out?

    A: We, as a country, have opposed walls and fences, whether it's fencing to keep people in or fencing to keep people out. There is a deep appreciation in our society of the role that the immigrants play. I think the greatest opposition you find at any given time is against the largest group of new immigrants - whoever they are. A hundred years ago, there were signs all over Boston: "No Irish need apply." And that's when my family came to this country, and, of course, my Uncle Jack then became the president of the United States.

    Q: Do you think the border fence is a failure and should be dismantled?

    A: I do think the border fence is a failure, and I think ideally it would be dismantled. I think it's offensive as a gesture, and it is ineffective in its goals to stop illegal immigrants ...or to try to reduce them in any significant number.

    Q: Do you think the U.S. should have open borders? Do you think there is an effective way to stop people from coming into this country illegally?

    A: I think we need to have comprehensive immigration reform in this country that deals with the complexity of the issue. I think that if you just pretend that people aren't going to continue to come into this country in large numbers because you put a fence up, then you're not going to really deal with the issue at hand. It also, of course, doesn't deal with the fact that most of the immigrants that come into this country come legally and then stay past their due date of returning to their country.

    Q: What do you expect the reaction to your documentary to be at a time when Arizona has passed such a get-tough immigration law?

    A: I hope that the film helps to inform the discussion and the debate a little bit more. I think until the legislators and policy makers really take up the mantle on this and deal with it in a comprehensive way - and, I hope, in a way that doesn't serve individuals politically but serves the country - we'll continue to have this type of response that I don't think is healthy.

    Q: You talked to migrants, coyotes, the Border Patrol and Minutemen. Did any of them surprise you?

    A: I assumed that people who really lived on the border would … support the fence the most, given that they're having to deal with this issue really on the front lines. What I found is that the majority of people I spoke to who were on the border were opposed to it. I think that they're opposed to it because they see firsthand how ineffective it is and that migrants are still coming over in the same numbers that they used to be. I think they see the damage it does to the wildlife and to the environment, and then I think they feel it's ugly. And I think, in addition to that, many people on the border have really wonderful relationships with their neighbors to the south. It was very integrated and very friendly, and then you put up this kind of mammoth wall that very overtly says, "We don't want you, we don't like you, you are not our neighbor, we are not on friendly terms, you are our enemy, don't come near us." And I think for people who live in that territory, that is not a message that they're wanting to send.

    pfikac@express-news.net


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    Does Rory Kennedy have a front door with a lock on it at her place of residence? How about a garage door? Back patio door? I suspect those doors are there to keep uninvited intruders out. She might even have a gated fence around her property to protect her home from invasion. Who knows...

    Yet she doesn’t feel our nation’s sovereignty should be guarded with the same effort as she protects her personal possessions.

    The day Rory Kennedy takes down her front door is the day I will listen to this hypocrite on border security or anything else to do with protecting this country against the ravages caused by illegal invaders.
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    Sorry Lady

    I Find La Raza, Reconqista, Aztlan, MECHa, white, black and hispanic supremacy, Mexico, socialism, marxism , communism, and just forcing YOUR beliefs on others, TO BE OFFENSIVE...

    Good fences make for good neighbors. Our constitution is our bible here and if you can not live by it and respect our laws and our people than we certainly do need walls and fences.

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    Q: Do you think the border fence is a failure and should be dismantled?

    A: I do think the border fence is a failure...
    So they didn't document people complaining about it or people traveling miles to get around it?

    That would indicate that it was effective.

    Notice where they had the premier? Yea, deep inside friendly territory.

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    Mexican Border Fence Cost $3 Billion, Does Nothing: Television
    By Dave Shiflett - Sep 14, 2010 9:01 PM PT

    If idiocy were a capital crime, at least 73 percent of Congress would be facing the hangman.

    That’s the percentage of legislators who supported the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which created one of the most stunning boondoggles in U.S. history, at least according to “The Fence (La Barda),â€
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