Site advertises trip simulating undocumented immigration.
Site advertises trip simulating undocumented immigration.
The blog of travel site Kayak.com currently has a post up highlighting “semi-illegal” vacations for people who want to live life “on the edge.” Their top choice? A get-away to Mexico City to simulate the experience of being an undocumented immigrant, complete with actors posing as border control agents “shooting (blanks) at you“:
The Mexico City trip has now been taking off the post. ThinkProgress spoke with a Kayak.com representative who simply said that it had been removed because of “complaints.” The trip, however, was also highlighted in a Kayak.com e-mail today.
UPDATE: Unlike Kayak.com’s billing of the vacation as one that will “scare you senseless,” guides for trip describe it “as an homage to the path immigrants have beaten across the border.”
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Wow… just when you think we’ve hit the bottom…
February 15th, 2008 at 3:34 pmSounds like my daily commute.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:35 pmoh the hilarity
February 15th, 2008 at 3:37 pmHey, somebody git Fox on the phone… I just had an idea for sit-com!
February 15th, 2008 at 3:37 pmWe hit the bottom when we had to put signs up warning drivers of the danger from illegals crossing the road.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:40 pmWhat’s next? The waterboarding weekend at Gitmo?
February 15th, 2008 at 3:41 pmDo you get to pick lettuce for 8 hours on the last day?
February 15th, 2008 at 3:42 pmComment by Southern Man — February 15, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
Comment by Roger_Roger — February 15, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
Okay, S&M and R2… let’s all give thanks where thanks are due!
This is what yer patron saint, Ronnie Raygun, had to say about illegals!
http://www.rnha.org/ImmigrationReformNow/Quotes.htm#Reagan
Remarks Announcing the Formation of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Commission, May 18, 1982
“…it makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won’t do? One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the fields for lack of harvesters.â€
Dang… so much fer a good rant, huh, fellahs?
February 15th, 2008 at 3:47 pmNo one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:49 pmComment by RUCerious — February 15, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
“What happens in Abu Ghraib… gits buried in that big, dusty field over there in the middle of the night”?
Uh, better re-think that one.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:50 pmWe hit the bottom when we had to put signs up warning drivers of the danger from illegals crossing the road.
Comment by Roger_Roger
So if I understand you Rx2, if a little kid gets brought into this country by his or her parents – and cannot run fast enough to cross the street, it is ok to kill them? This is sick even coming from you, man.
I live 20 miles from the Mexican border in San Diego and about every month or so, the police are responding to (usually) a hit and run of an immigrant child. People are dying out here.
Would Jesus allow the children to be killed by you and your hateful friends?
February 15th, 2008 at 3:51 pmThis actually reminds me of ‘Hunger Banquets’ I helped organize in college.
Yeah it’s playing make-believe, but it may open up some of the participants eyes.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:55 pmTRoS ~ So no spectacular “Cruise the Fertile Crescent Tigris and Euphrates” excursioon for ya?
February 15th, 2008 at 3:56 pmNot this yr, RU… I figger I kin stay home AND see the 3rd World at the same time!
February 15th, 2008 at 4:01 pmWow… just when you think we’ve hit the bottom…
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — February 15, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
It should be noted:
1) This tour is run by Mexicans with some funding from the Mexican Government
2) The majority of the tourists who have visited it are Mexicans themselves
3) The company employs 70 people in some fashion or another
4) Some have criticized the tour for being a training ground for those who are preparing for a border crossing.
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can’t blame the americanos for this one….
February 15th, 2008 at 4:10 pmPoorism is such a disturbing travel trend of the affluent. Are you all familiar with the urban ghetto/slum tours. Caitlin and Forrest must really feel special looking down upon the street children of Soweto, Mumbai, and all the rest. Sick bastards!
February 15th, 2008 at 4:12 pmI know, dimwit. After I posted that comment, I went and clicked on the links and realized the situation was different than my first impression.
We don’t need to blame anything on americanos they didn’t do. We’ve got PLENTY of real stuff to work w/!
February 15th, 2008 at 4:12 pmDon’t forget the Viagra!
February 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pmcorrection- , or better yet, what we haven’t done for them.
Comment by Southern Man — February 15, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
“We” meaning scumbag republican traitors and their cowardly followers.
February 15th, 2008 at 4:18 pm2050 is when our children are going to wake up and hate us for all we could have done for them, but decided not to because of power and politics.
Southern Man
you mean when they have to pay the bill for the unconscienciable war that was waged with borrowed money? When they learn in history class that their parents had rights but eagerly gave them away to the facist republcans because mommy and daddy were cowards?
February 15th, 2008 at 4:24 pm2050… Is that when China and Saudi Arabia will be divvying up the 3rd rate former empire theyve finally will own?
February 15th, 2008 at 4:34 pmSouthern Man,
Your cute little link, mocking “intellectuals” and divorce may reinforce your ideological narrative, but it doesn’t reflect reality. Surprize, surprize.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0923080.html
Take a look at the breakdown of divorce by state: the reder the state, the higher the divorce rate (Mass. has the lowest divorce rate, even with all those dirty gays destroying marriage and all…huh.)
February 15th, 2008 at 4:37 pmComment by Southern Man — February 15, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
Jeez, proof positive that friggin goopers have no sense of humor at all. I lost the humor there, sport. Was there some?
you mean when they have to pay the bill for the unconscienciable war that was waged with borrowed money? When they learn in history class that their parents had rights but eagerly gave them away to the facist republcans because mommy and daddy were cowards?
Comment by Bobwurst — February 15, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
AMEN!!!
February 15th, 2008 at 4:39 pmThe only cowards I know are the ones who are ignoring the threat, you. I guess being called a coward and supporting cowards after 9/11, you got sick of being called a coward, so you now try and call the team that is fighting the enemy, cowards. Got it. It only works in your circles Bob. Try not listening to LP all of the time.
Comment by Southern Man
“The unexamined life is not worth living” Aristotle.
February 15th, 2008 at 4:40 pmAnd having the belief that we will be a third rate nation in 2050 says a lot about you.
Comment by Southern Man
So explain why your you think your kids will be mad at you in 2050?
February 15th, 2008 at 4:42 pm“Take an international law class and you might learn something about why that will never happen”
Toothless inbred
Please tell us all about your education in international law. Where did you earn your JD by the way?
February 15th, 2008 at 4:43 pm“The unexamined life is not worth living†Aristotle. Back at you Bob.
Comment by Southern Man
February 15th, 2008 at 4:45 pmOh great, it is so empty of thought that is is resorting to “I know you are, but what am I?” Well played gomer.
Comment by Bobwurst — February 15, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
Right, Bobwurst. I was just going to ask that.
February 15th, 2008 at 4:45 pmComment by Southern Man — February 15, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
Dumb as a friggin’ stump.
Let’s see…
-Economy in the toilet.
-Deficit up the wazoo which will take god only knows how long to pay for.
-Too few jobs for Americans.
-Virtually nothing being exported.
-No jobs=no spending within the country.
-Housing, fuel and food skyrocketing. Oh and let’s not forget the cost of healthcare.
-Two wars going to $hit.
-China, Japan and various EU countries owning most of our resources.
Yeah, we’re just dandy.
Moron.
February 15th, 2008 at 4:46 pmHe’s all yours TRoS, I have to go cash my Soros check, smuggle a mexican into the country, have a beer with Osamma, and then destroy our way of life because I hate our freedoms.
February 15th, 2008 at 4:47 pmBe careful, Bob… it appears from his comment (”… take an international law class…”) that S&M has you confused /w J Bolton!
Man, S&M, you sure play dirty…
February 15th, 2008 at 4:48 pmIm glad to see that Southern Man has learned to accept a part of the blame and stopped finger pointing.
Yes, SM, we have let our politicians, our servants, run amok in our house and steal from the piggy bank.
February 15th, 2008 at 4:57 pmGee, thanks a lot, Bobwurst. You git ta go party w/ tha Evil Oe and his minions… will Michael Moore be there?… and I hafta stay here and deal w/ Lumberhead. Thanks.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:02 pmWe hit the bottom when we had to put signs up warning drivers of the danger from illegals crossing the road.
Comment by Roger_Roger — February 15, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
Signs are put up because even people who vehemently oppose illegal immigration have no desire to see anyone hit and killed by a fast moving vehicle.
There are always exceptions, as your post indicates.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:05 pmStrangely enough, missmolly, R_R claims he’s somewhere in the Midwest, the Northern part (Minn?), which would put him nearer to the Canadian border, and not the Mexican.
What were the signs for, to warn the Canucks to look out for Americans trying to escape INTO Canada?
February 15th, 2008 at 5:10 pmExperiences like this “adventure” are particularly sick because they make sport out of serious situations. What’s next? Phony crazed gunmen at shopping malls just so patrons can pay to feel what it’s like to be in that situation? How about a trip to a pseudo “enemy combatant” camp for people who want to experience what it’s like to be interrogated with “enhanced techniques”? (deluxe package includes an actual waterboarding session!) Or maybe an “escape from prison” adventure, where you must run and hide, evade dogs and men with guns, all while wearing an orange jumpsuit?
Thank heavens our culture hasn’t become so depraved that this “entertainment” is popular.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:13 pmOr maybe an “escape from prison†adventure, where you must run and hide, evade dogs and men with guns, all while wearing an orange jumpsuit?
Comment by missmolly — February 15, 2008 @ 5:13 pm
S/b very popular w/ the GOOPers, come 1/20/09.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:26 pmAnd having the belief that we will be a third rate nation in 2050 says a lot about you.
I only say that because I dont think our country will survive the coming civil war. On the bright side, many of us will be dead before it happens.
February 15th, 2008 at 6:45 pmJust like liberals to praise lawbreakers
February 15th, 2008 at 6:58 pmPerhaps the Cambodian live mine field reality show adventure trip.
February 15th, 2008 at 6:58 pmReuse the killing fields, see if your land mine unearths more skeletal remains and win $100.00!
Comment by Ricl077 — February 15, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
Just like a troll to make an utterly irrational, incomprehensible comment that has NOTHING to do w/ the thread he’s stinking up.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:12 pm“Just like liberals to praise lawbreakers
Comment by Ricl077 — February 15, 2008 @ 6:58 pm”
Says the guy that is pro-illegal invasion, anti-habeus corpus and pro-illegal wiretapping. Excuse me if I don’t find you a credible source on the rule of law.
February 15th, 2008 at 8:50 pmJust like liberals to praise lawbreakers
Comment by Ricl077 — February 15, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
Sure. Just like we did those tea dumping mofos. Careful how you play your self righteousness
February 16th, 2008 at 3:10 pm