Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Extra Credit Current Event
Another way into the US from Mexico, through flash flood water tunnels. A view at the Border Patrol and what they have to put up with and how they characterize their work (contraband/drugs/illegals).
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Interesting... I wonder if tunnels are ever as sort of glorified as they are in the TV show "Weeds," where there's a tunnel from a private residence in Tijuana to a maternity store's back room in a shopping mall in California (San Diego? I don't remember where). I just wonder if those types exist and, if not, is it just a perceived existence that's missing? Are they there and we just don't know because the Border Patrol hasn't found them? All of this is intriguing, I think...
ReplyDeleteAgreed, very intriguing. It really brings a new view to the term "border" to that we haven't been really discussing. What about airspace, subterranean space, and water-ways? We've been talking a lot about borders as geopolitical and land-bound (although arbitrary) lines, but what about the 3 dimensional space (ie above and below) in proximity to the lines drawn on 2 dimensional maps.
ReplyDeleteThis story on the tunnels is incredibly powerful. I believe that Teddy Cruz mentions tunnels in his discussion of trans-border spaces, but it's true that the border is much more than a mere line. Thanks for posting.
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