Elephant and mariachi band join forces to shame CBP
As part of a political stunt to highlight immigration issues, an enterprising congressional candidate tries to immitate Alexander the Great by crossing the Rio Grande with a herd of elephants; CBP fails to respond
Don’t Think of an Elephant is the title of a controverial book by linguist George Lakoff, and it also seems to be the policy of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agency. In an attempt to shame the federal government into concerted action against illegal immigrants, a Republican congressman named Raj Peter Bhakta (also known as a contestant on the show The Apprentice) earlier this week organized his own test of CBP’s procedures. Accompanied by a mariachi band, he escorted an elephant across the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas. “The elephant never made landfall into Mexico, but I tell you something, he could have made 15 laps back and forth, but no one showed up,” Bhakta said. No one, that is, except the media.
-read more in Sara Inés Calderon’s Brownsville Herald report
