And perhaps that's right - but, despite the language barriers erected, it's a pleasure to report that they've produced a sparkling album.
The barriers they erect destroy the ebb and flow through which newcomers have historically become part of the mainstream and moved into the middle class.
In the more treacherous neighborhoods they navigate barriers of boulders or burned-out auto bodies erected to keep them out.
Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, California, have also seen barriers erected.
He put hundreds of thousands to work building the Great Wall, starting with smaller defensive barriers already erected to keep out nomadic tribes.
"We reject religious barriers erected because of sexual preference and gender."
The fences, which are intended to stop intruders, buttress concrete barriers already erected to thwart Palestinian sniper attacks.
Metal detectors have been installed at all entrances, and concrete barriers erected at driveways.
While the barriers erected along the northern border, Canal Street, no longer prevent shoppers from entering the neighborhood, police officers still occasionally request photo ID's.