It happen quite often that reporters set up these kind of stories camera at the ready. The thing looks completely staged because it was. They knew in advance where the Border Patrol parks to observe the border. If the agent had overreacted it would have been an even better story.
Judging by the agents reaction, he knew he was being set up as a prop and just played it cool. He was able to remove an entire illegal family at zero cost to the country and he didn't even have to fill out a bunch of paperwork!
That's what an agent calls a good day. I bet he then took all their belongings to the port of entry and gave them to the RCMP with a big grin on his face. I bet the RCMP were mad and hopping that this does not become a trend.
The thing looks completely staged because it was. They knew in advance where the Border Patrol parks to observe the border. If the agent had overreacted it would have been an even better story.
Right on. I saw another segment on the Canadian television of "casual" reporters supposedly scouting the area. They saw a man kneeling in the snow. Then followed the kindly, supportive, decent approach of various persons.
The joker for me up here in Canada is what happened in Emerson, Alberta. thid crossing point about two years ago. A young native Indian woman went public because of a policy of the town's main restaurant. She said she was asked to put money up at the counter BEFORE having her meal. True, one could concede it was distressing.
All politically correct hell broke loose. Reporters charging in and raising their consternation. The restaurant had been afflicted with "dine and dash", by natives from the local reservation. The restaurant wanted monies up front first. The police cannot go in the reservation after them for this kind of thing( as far as I know). The restaurant was losing it's shirt. What a shabby and mean trick! Worse than taking goods off a shelf. The work put in to prepare a meal and so on.
A bit of a rant, but I just had to put it down.
LOL, the poor RCMP are going to have to fill out the paperwork now!