(Actually, boat refugees from Haiti.)Earlier this week, reports quoting north African immigrants, braving the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats to get to Europe, calling their illegal counter-parts on the U.S.-Mexico border, "lazy," saying they have it "easy."
One north African man, intercepted with others off the coast of Italy, invited Mexicans sneaking into America to try "crossing a sea, sometime" to reach the relative economic prosperity to the north, "not some pansy-ass river."
"Hell, at some points on their border, there's not even any water at all!" a young woman, with three small children, went on to say.
Reminded that border patrol have, in recent years, been buoyed (no pun intended) by trigger-happy, volunteer-patriots on the American side, another man from north Africa replied, "Sharpshooter, schmart-shooter; I'll take my chances with them over the Old Man and the Sea, any day."
Asked what Old Man he was referring to, the illegal-immigrant broke down, sobbing, "Why Spencer, why?
When it was mentioned that similar boat journeys between the Caribbean and the U.S. have similar hardships, often ending in tragedy as well, the group of north Africans refugees responded with a simultaneous, "Ha!"
One young man, with a slight limp, shouted out, with apparent support from the rest, "The Caribbean? Have you ever been to the Caribbean? It's like swimming in bath water."
"Bring it on," he added, as he returned to the group huddled together for warmth around small campfire.
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