This is too distorted to pass comment on. ABC [US] continues to excel in what corporate media does best, which is telling Americans their problems are inevitably caused by someone else - in this case, Mexico.
Mexico's border with California — the birthplace of the 649-mile-long border fence being built by the USA— resembles a demilitarized zone.
In highly populated areas south of San Diego, U.S. Border Patrol vehicles patrol dirt roads between 18-foot-high fences. Cameras monitor hard-to-reach valleys, and drivers must idle through Border Patrol checkpoints that sit 4,000 feet above sea level along Interstate 8 in the Jacumba Mountains.
Did Mexico erect a fence on the border? No. Is La Migra patrolling on Mexican soil? No. Yet ABC clearly implies that the North Korean-like conditions on America's southern frontier are Mexico's doing and not its own. This is just bogus reporting. It would be like the Jerusalem Post writing a story with the headline 'Palestinian security barrier prevents Israelis from seeing the sunrise'. Come on folks, if you think the fence and associated controls are so essential, why shy away from the fact that they are all happening on California's border with Mexico? In fact, that would even intensify the message that American's are suffering at the hands of Mexican drug lords, etc. If ABC really wanted to rile people up, they should have called this piece 'Remember the Alamo', because there's nothing an embattled, embittered population likes better than the resurrection of an old evil in order the justify the promotion of a new one.
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