The Burro Pinata Of Ciudad Juarez
(The Wooden Horse of Troy from South of the Border)
Seeking to gain entrance into the U.S.A. illegally and, hopefully, obtain gainful employment, swimming the Rio Grande was out of the question as, he could not swim and digging a tunnel was much too time-consuming, Pancho, an unemployed Mexican whose expertise included computers and the programming thereof, drew the blueprints for and ordered a very large burro piñata to be built, in Ciudad Juárez, the interior of which was planned to be hollow in order that several campesinos could hide within alongside him.
When the Burro Piñata was completed, on July 4th, Pancho plus a number of northbound paisanos climbed inside. Whereupon, it was towed into position beside the Great Wall of Mexico, opposite the west Texas town of Laredo, by the rest of the remaining and non-migratory Mexican workers, who then slowly wandered away for a well-earned siesta in the hope of deceiving the ever-watchful gringos.
Once seen, the Yanquis came to marvel at the huge, colourful creation and, mistaking it for an enormous and generous Independence Day gift from south of the border, being patriotic flag-wavers, they dragged the Burro Piñata into the United States for an early afternoon Independence Day celebration.
That night, after the border guards were asleep, either in a drunken stupor or stoned out of their tiny minds on imported Mexican weed, Acapulco Gold, the now illegal immigrants ever-so quietly opened a trapdoor in the multi-coloured underbelly of the Burro Piñata. Seeing no signs of movement below, they were about to steal out of their place of concealment within the Piñata when Pancho whispered, “Who brought the ladder?”.
The ensuing stunned silence was happily unbroken or they may have been overheard by and, unhappily, woken the somnolent Americanos.
Thinking swiftly, as was his wont, and using only sign language, Pancho instructed his compadres to remove their serapes and tie them together with one end securely attached to a wood cross-beam in the burro. Having done as instructed, they were then able to exit the Burro Piñata, slide to the ground safely, and eventually make off into Texas under cover of darkness.
Hiking northeast, in the heat, and successfully dodging police patrols, for several days, Pancho finally found his way to Fort Worth where, crossing the last road on his quest, he cheerfully entered the doors of the Tandy Corporation offices.
Upon inquiring about the possibility of employment of the bilingual supervisor of personnel acquisition, which, based on that qualification alone, justified his supervisory position and the earning of and receiving a daily wage, Pancho was sadly informed, in no uncertain terms, and breaking his poor heart in the process...
“We outsourced all our in-house work to Mexico!”
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