You cannot cross the Rio Grande without knowing it, even in the referenced areas downstream from El Paso where there's no water most of the time. You go downslope to the river across open country with greasewood. You come to a line of salt cedar. You cross the channel bottom, which is bare, More salt cedar, and you're then going upslope through greasewood.
Bad navigation? Accident? Duh?
If they're "merely dopers" and not military, where'd they get the HumVees, military gear, various machine guns and FALs? Hmmm? Maybeso via the generals whom I referenced earlier? Even if the individuals shooting at our guys aren't military, they're supplied by the military. Wilful collusion.
Why is all this downplayed? Counting noses = counting votes. Other than El Paso, there aren't enough voters west of a line from Del Rio to Lubbock to matter one iota to TPTB inside the Beltway. Brewster County is the size of Delaware, but with less than 10,000 people. Etc., etc. No votes, no power, no interest.
And both parties are courting the Latin vote, which from the standpoint of media interpretations of events is a racism thing. That is, anything done by a Latin is de facto a Good Thing.
La Raza Unida's motto is "Para la raza, todo; para los otros, nada." "For the Race, all; for the others, nothing." Tell me that ain't racist? I'm not in the market for a bridge, either. Then you have the Aztlan crowd, and MeCha, with this latter gaining power in the LA Basin.
Ergo, "downplay".
I'll defer, of course, to others' vaster knowledge; I've merely lived in the area for 24 years.
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