buy a mexican christmas tree and stop the immigration!

"More than 100 agents are to be posted along the US-Mexico border.

This time, rather than US officials trying to stop Mexican migrants heading north, it is Mexican agents who are stopping illegals from coming south.

But these are no ordinary immigrants - they are insects carried on branches of Christmas trees for the festive season."

that's the way an article by claire marshall on the bbc news website begins. and i love it. it reminds me of the movie "the day after tomorrow". and brendan made it very clear that everybody in the movie theatre started laughing when they showed the shot above -- and i laughed too, but his remark was meant to make me feel bad or something and point out how ridiculous that was... that irish-american biatch.

but that's not the point. the point is that the mexican government has enforced controls to keep away those undesirable bugs together with the more expensive christmas trees that are grown in the u.s. and canada. at the same time, in recent years they have offered subsidies to mexican christmas tree growers.

this means that people in mexico now have the opportunity to buy mexican trees that are beautiful and a lot cheaper than the imported ones. plus, they get to help the incipient local christmas tree industry and avoid deforestation.

read mr. lópez's business story and how marthita's tree lit up her eyes with joy. and read about this place that grows christmas trees in mexico state.

so, if you are in mexico, when you go buy your christmas tree, make sure it's a mexican tree.