The Border

My earlier link to "South of the Border" reminded me of a story:

I don't live too far (in the grand scheme of things) from the U.S./Mexico border. A friend of mine was working on a video shoot at a beachfront nature park on the border at the same time that a cable news network had set up cameras to get some "border hopping" footage.

While he was there, a seal had beached himself and was unable to get back out into the water. Some men on the Mexico side of the border saw this, squeezed through the fence, helped the seal back into the ocean, and then went back through the fence into Mexico. The news network captured this footage and showed it later as "evidence of how easy it is to cross the fence into America".

Huh? They were helping a seal. I understand that people certainly do hop the border and am not suggesting that it never happens. But for crying out loud, the guys were rescuing a seal. And then they went home.