Breaking Borders

Team Member Name: _Nicholas Larson________________________
Publication__London Times________________Date: 2008____
Cartoonist:_Al Margoles__________________U.S./International
Title of the cartoon:_________________________________Cartoon#_4_
What action is taking place in the cartoon?

The president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, is saying to George Bush “tear down this wall”.

Tone of the cartoon: 1) positive or negative framing of undocumented immigrants 2) positive or negative framing of immigration policies
What “reality” is constructed/framed about immigration/immigrants?

What they are making reference to is the famous Ronald Reagan speech to Mikail Gorbechev to tear down the wall separating East and West Berlin in the early eighties. The cartoonist is making a point that in America, we had an already established a precedent that walls separating people are not a good idea. The hypocrisy of the American govt. runs really thick in this cartoon. A negative image of the immigration policies of America are being framed in this cartoon.