Tommy Lee Jones on the Border Wall and Leprechauns

Actor Tommy Lee Jones, who frequently portrays law enforcement personnel on the big screen and starred in the border movie The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, shared his opinion about the border wall with 02138 magazine:

The idea of a fence between El Paso and Brownsville bears all the credibility and seriousness of flying saucers from Mars or leprechauns. Or any manner of malicious, paranoid superstition. In other words, it's bullshit.... It's a predatory approach to democracy by those who would instill fear and then propose themselves as a solution. It's very destructive. Very, very destructive. And it's the perfectly wrong thing to do.

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First of all, it won't work. You can't build a fence that I cannot get over, through, or under if I want to go to Mexico. In that [border] country, you cannot do it. It's a complete folly. Ecologically, it's a complete disaster, and sociologically, it's a complete disaster. It's an act of fascist madness.

And the people who are being appealed to, the voterships that are removed from that country, are being spoken to as if it's time to fence their backyard so the stray dog doesn't get in. "OK, let's just build a fence." That's as far removed from reality as can be, and entirely cynical by those who would manipulate these people. It's a sad day for the democratic process to see people manipulated through fear and insecurity.