Pinche Scrooginess: Mexican Border Control Hates Mexican Missionaries, Steals Their Shoes
23 December 2008, 12:45 PM. By Guanabee Staff
Members of the Hispanic Ministries in Tuscon, Arizona, traveled to Mexico to donate 300 pairs of shoes to needy children. Aw! Their good deeds, however, were quickly stopped by the evil Mexican Customs office in Nogales Sonora. Cumstoms confiscated 250 pairs of shoes and levied a $1,800 fine. Leo Garcia, who heads the Hispanic Ministries, pleaded with Mexican customs officers to let them return to the U.S. with the shoes, but the officials just laughed, chugged on their bottles of tequila, puffed a bit on their cigars, and immediately took their loot to El Guapo. Oh yeah, but before that, they took the missionaries’ car keys and refused to give them back until they paid the $1,800 tax.
Said Garcia’s 16-year-old daughter, Esperanza:
“It was heartbreaking because we’re trying to help poor families and little kids who don’t get anything. I saw my dad crying and [it] made me cry more and my dad said put your head down and pray.”
Garcia has been traveling to Mexico for over a decade donating items to the poor and has never had any problems. Despite their recent setbacks, Garcia plans to return to Mexico in May with more donated items. Said Garcia, with a heroic glimmer in his eye:
“These people are not going to stop us to do what you know what we have in our hearts to do.”
A bit convoluted syntax, wethinks, but the message is clear. No matter how many bullets American border patrol shoots at you and no matter how much money Mexican customs officials rob from you, if you really, truly feel like you have a calling to be in Mexico, then you go for it girlfriend/guyfriend! But don’t forget to update your will!
Officials seize gifts that were headed to the poor [KVOA News 4, Tuscon]
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aw, i love you guanabee, but what’s up with the weirdly racist picture? come on - you KNOW the caption wouldn’t be the same if it was a little white boy.
Those customs guys are huge jerks. Santa will see to it that they burn in Hell forever.
Also, was “Cumstoms” intentional or a typo?
Those customs guys are huge jerks. Santa will see to it that they burn in Hell forever.
Also, was “Cumstoms” intentional or a typo?
The Mexican government does work and never will. So what’s the solution?
The age-old pesky U.S.-Mexico border problem has taxed the resources of both countries, led to long lists of injustices, and appears to be heading only for worse troubles in the future. Guess what? The border problem can never be solved. Why? Because the border IS the problem! It’s time for a paradigm change.
Never fear, a satisfying, comprehensive solution is within reach: Megamerge: the Dissolution Solution. Simply dissolve the border along with the failed Mexican government, and megamerge the two countries under U.S. law, with mass free 2-way migration eventually equalizing the development and opportunities permanently, with justice and without racism.
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