Think of the possibilities.

Now that the feds have announced where the vaunted border fence/wall is to be built, we can move forward as a community to make the necessary adjustments and celebrate the coming structure that will accent our border life.

First, give the new Brownsville high school to be built, (and along the Military Highway near the wall no less!), an appropriate mascot nickname. Chisme proposes the new high school adopt the name “Muros.” Yea, yea, I know that’s a rough translation to English, “the Walls.”
But now at football games, when fans put up those signs that say “D-Fence,” it would literally mean De-Fence.

Second, Chisme proposes a yearly border/fence float during the annual Charro Days parade, the big desfile on Saturday afternoon. It needs to be huge, the biggest sucker in the parade, and it ought to float down Elizabeth as one of the first, if not the first float of the Big Parade. Just for the sake of humor, and to show we’re good sports about the fence/wall, Chisme proposes having a couple of actors playing immigrants who can run around or climb over the fake wall, with another actor playing a U.S. federal agent popping out of no where for the inevitable arrest.
Crime doesn’t pay. The kids need to see that symbolism.

Third, rename the East Brownsville Little League at Lincoln Park. The wall/fence will rise like a giant on the levee over the diamonds of youth, so the league ought to be renamed something like the “Brownsville Fence & Wall Little League.” The kids can wear a cute wall/fence logo on their uniforms. A Border Patrol agent can throw out the first pitch of the season in front of the actual wall down to the playing fields below. It would be cool, no?

Fourth, promote the wall/fence as a tourist attraction. The Brownsville tourism hot-shots ought to be planning right now to hit the Republican Party’s national convention hard in 2008, when the elephant party nominates their presidential candidate. Here’s an instant-made marketing pitch: “Brownsville: On The Border By The Sea By The Wall.”

Building a wall/fence to keep Mexicans out is issue #1 with the right-wing GOP faithful, so Chisme guesses they can’t wait to journey down to see the wall of their dreams. It will be sort of like the Japanese tourists flocking to Egypt to photograph and go ga-ga over the pyramids.

 Chisme can hear it now from the GOP tourists flocking to Brownsville: “Look Mildred, it’s the border wall to keep out all  those dirty Mexicans.”

“Ain’t it pretty, Fred? It looks even better in person than when we see it on Fox News.”

And fifth, think of the economic surge this thing is going to give our community! My gosh, the concrete, framing, asphalt, brick, and trucking companies are going to have a field day. Good for them! And the immigrant workers that are building houses and roads are going to have new opportunities as well. If they can put up a new house in three months, just imagine how fast they can build a border wall.

Yes, I know, the border mayors and officialdom van a llorar now that the big, bad feds are going to go through with the wall that the Republicans want built. Ni modo, gang. Think positive. The best is yet to come.

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