The more things change...

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Tortilla Curtain

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...600-8ecb-a642b8a14777/?utm_term=.1a0e597e9333


""U.S. and Mexico Embroiled in Dispute Over 'Tortilla Curtain'

By Ward Sinclair December 24, 1978
History has given us a Great Wall of China, a Maginot Line in France, a McNamara Line in Vietnam and a lesson about man-made barriers:

Most of them don't work, as long as there are human beings intent on going from one side to the other.""

 

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"TORTILLA CURTAIN INCIDENT. The Tortilla Curtain Incident (1978–79), which involved El Paso, Texas, refers to a proposed measure in which the United States sought to impede illegal immigration, which sparked outrage among human rights activists and Mexican citizens,"



https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pqt01

 

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OPERATION WETBACK. Operation Wetback was a repatriation project of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to remove undocumented Mexican immigrants (pejoratively referred to as "wetbacks") from the Southwest. During the first decades of the twentieth century, the majority of migrant workers who crossed the border illegally did not have adequate protection against exploitation by American farmers.

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pqo01

 

[Jada59]

Tortilla curtain? That seems a bit racy!

 

[Hal9000_]

Tortilla curtain? That seems a bit spicy!

Only with peppers and sauce.

 

[Jada59]

Only with peppers and sauce.

Let me see your big burrito and you can see my enchiladas. They're extra cheesy!

 

[Hal9000_]

Let me see your big burrito and you can see my enchiladas. They're extra cheesy!

¡Muy bien!

 

[Hal9000_]

I was watching an old episode of Murphy Brown and they mentioned the "Tortilla Curtain", so I had to look it up.