-By Warner Todd Huston
US border agents have been increasingly suffering physical attacks at the hands of drug traffickers and illegal entrants across the southern border, “nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period,” AP reports. Naturally, this has caused the US border patrol to step up their replies and the levels of force they use to subdue these attacks — after all, should our agents just take being attacked by flying rocks and bullets without reply? But, what does the AP report in theirs titled, “Border Patrol’s counteroffensive riles Mexico”? They report that the Mexicans are mad at us. AP makes it appear as if we are at fault because they are increasing in their level of violence to which we are forced to reply.
Check out the sympathy that the AP offers Mexicans living near the border…
The Border Patrol says its agents were attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period along the Mexican border, typically by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. Now the agency is responding with tear gas and powerful, pepper-spray weapons, including firing into Mexico.
The counteroffensive has drawn complaints that innocent families are being caught in the crossfire.
“A neighbor shouted, ‘Stop it! There are children living here,” said Esther Arias Medina, 41, who on Wednesday fled her Tijuana, Mexico, shanty with her 3-week-old grandson after the infant began coughing from smoke that seeped through the walls.
First of all, AP quotes someone who claims they saw a “neighbor” who “fled” with her child, but does not interview the actual woman herself. AP broke the very first rule in reporting: verification. After that, the following sentence AP gives us is this one…
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