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Understanding 9/11tv The Coyotes Bicycle CSPAN January 7, 2017 12:01pm-12:15pm EST
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with the help of our charter spectrum cable partners we will feature some of the areas local authors. we begin with kimball taylor the coyotes a bicycle. >> it doesn't look like it but this is a broad river valley
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and when we get rain storms it can flood quite significantly. i came down here in 2008 to do a story about the thousands of car tires that washed into the united states from mexico during any significant rain and the thing that was interesting about that is that they originated and the united states. when we buy a new facet of the tires we leave the old ones at the dealer. most often there sold to mexican middlemen. when they are discovered. and when it rains they just wash back into the united states. i was talking to those who operate the place about the car tires that they were picking up at that moment.
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here are the california car tires coming to us from mexico. it is just like the bicycles. he said, right over here. we walked around the 200 year old barn and he have a giant pile of bicycles. i said where do they come from. and he turned around and he pointed up this hill because it's actually a 300 feet higher in elevation and the mexicans. it turned out that every parcel that i went to after that have a pile of bicycles from the state park to the gomez a place right down here. the people of the valley were just collecting these bicycles that were abandoned by migrants.
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day after day bicycles were accumulating. their experience is very interesting because as we mentioned it's very rural community people are making money off of horse ranching there is organic farms commercial farms and yet they are dealing with these international issues right on their back door and the whole story of migration follows economic patterns so when we have a boom like we did during the housing bubble there was quite a bit of crossing. with the low skilled jobs that were in demand at the time.
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in along this boundary people have crossed in every imaginable way and when they do they encounter the regular americans who live right here and the locals are quite pragmatic i would not say ideological and they trade interesting stories. this is a river valley. and the winter it often floods in right over here this ranch that lives in this parcel tells me that he found a man who had crossed on the river on a boogie board but then got stuck and the tree. when i first came upon.
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that it was just and the someone casually cycling along helping them to blend easier so many people thought it was for the speed it would take us nine minutes and one minute. it actually has to do with technology every technology that the border patrol brings to bear on the border the barriers themselves they all have a weakness for example the tripwires and infrared cameras they go blind and rc fogs that we get quite often here. and just become utterly useless. and the case of the bicycles i
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have to do with a string of 18,000 seismic sensors that the border patrol relies on you can imagine they detect earthshaking things. in traditionally as the migrants who run and walk with the border patrol roles and in jeeps and in trucks. the bicycle technique reversed that trend and suddenly my grants were able to cross over ground. and the past it would have easily been protected. the san diego sector was one of the busiest.
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they experience here. it lent the way to the certain kind of politics. it has been one of the hottest in terms of crossing. this is the most enforced 5-mile stretch of our 2000-mile order. they had shifted to the desert and arizona. there is a huge presence here. there is border patrol agents
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and trucks. in terms of smuggling his creativity. they were on the creative defense. for example the fence here your average mile cost $3.5 million. if you go to youtube you find a video of smugglers using the 24-dollar carjack to jack that fence up almost to the height of the man and then they just
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kick the jacket out. the smugglers are laughing the whole time. just to share creativity involved with smuggling can make for some pretty -- pretty interesting stories. this valley right here and they had been using this since the 1800s. they had been smuggling everything at one point lacey under gramps -- undergarments were smuggled. even cattle at one time. and most often it's been people. under the secure fence act of 2007 during the construction of this wall here engineers
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filled in this entire valley with the giant berm and totally changed the watershed here. so they could put a fence on top of it. i don't know how many cubic yards there is. the interesting thing about this is there hasn't always been since -- such fortification. there is a little plaque that they put in place to celebrate the fact that father juniper sarah crossed from mexico into the united states through these valleys either here or
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just over the hill and established what became the california mission system. i'm traveling across the boundary they are agent in fact. when it comes to the debate everyone is willing to have an opinion but so few are willing to inform themselves so one of the hopes i head for this book is when they meet the characters that they are meeting people that live on the boundary. people who just make their livelihoods here. the career it is to cross this
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border. migration numbers had been down since 2008. negative even. also a study say that they tend to cross in a certain age range. mexico went through this boom earlier and the century but now it was aged out of that. not only had we have make negative grecian numbers we are not likely to see another boom. when we look at spending billions of dollars on the boundary. money is our bridges and our roads. that is our schools.
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they should be aware of what they are defending. >> the midway is the longest serving aircraft carrier of the 20th century. the first in a three shift class of carriers. and a group of 120 planes. it was built in only 17 months but missed action in world war ii by one week. it turned into a museum in 2004 it attracts over 1 million a tourist in italy. as we talk with the san diego state professor about his book on mexican stereotypes. >> i tell the story about i was at the university of connecticut i was the first year professor i have received my comparative literature phd.
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