I confess, I’m not a Wildcat but I’m on their March Madness bandwagon. Did you see the way they embarrassed Duke, the defending national champs? Their underdog success so far has that sense of destiny, something to unify Tucson two months after the shooting.
That said, could the UA student body be anymore divisive? This past week a student group built a six-foot tall, 400-yard long mock border fence in the middle of campus. From KPHO:
The students participating said they’re alarmed by increasing anti-immigrant legislation and sentiment throughout Arizona and the country, and “aim to create an unavoidable crisis on campus to expose the larger human catastrophe.”
The whole analogy is ridiculous. A fence separating students of similar citizenship doesn’t share the same purpose of a border fence separating two sovereign nations. Apparently the whole exercise had nothing to do with whether or not good fences make good neighbors. It was just another far left, open borders demonstration…
Credit to Jill Arizona for these photos of the mock border fence:
You say you're not for open borders, eh?
Sign compares the US-Mex fence to the Berlin Wall...except that the Berlin Wall was designed to keep people in - not out.
Kumbaya!
Protester wearing a pig snout and dressed as US Border Patrol
It was their counter response to a chainlink fence erected by the UA group “No more Deaths” during the past weekend.
The College Republicans say the fence itself is too one-sided, and their memorial supports the other side of the debate.
“Since they’re making a mockery of our borders and basically saying we should have no borders, one world, unbordered venues, things like that, we wanted to actually honor the men and women who protect our borders,” said Trey Terry, of the College Republicans.
Border Patrol Memorial built by UA College Republicans
Of course, no good deed goes unpunished. Vandals struck the Border Patrol memorial shortly after it was built. From KGUN.
Sgt. Alvarez with the University of Arizona Police Department said that they responded when a group of students had gathered in front of the memorial protesting and writing in chalk on the sidewalk. Alvarez said that the students were contacted by officers who determined they were exercising their first amendment rights. When KGUN9 asked whether the students would be cited for criminal damage and disturbing an education institution, Alvarez said he had no comment at this time.
Neil Rosekrans is a founder and partner of StateBrief.com. He has been a guest political commentator for the Arizona Law Channel, NBC's Sunday Square Off and The Terry Gilberg Show on KFYI. Neil earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and earned his MBA and Masters in Public Policy, with an emphasis in International Relations, from Pepperdine University.
Neil and his wife, Beth, live in Scottsdale, Arizona. 
