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One of my most favorite shows on television is the Travel Channel’s Anthony Bourdain:No Reservations. Anthony Bourdain is a New Yorker, chef, restauranteur, and traveler. His show takes him all over the world to experience different cultures and food. I must say, I find it extremely entertaining, that is until the last episode I saw.

The episode I am speaking about took Anthony to the Texas-Mexico border and beyond. It started with a scene from a fine New York City Restaurant. The statement: The city’s restaurant business is built on the backs of Mexicans, legal or illegal and without them the industry would collapse.

Here we go again, the jobs Americans will not do and without the illegal Mexicans civilization as we know it would would come to a screeching halt. Sorry, Mr. Bourdain, I must disagree with you. What Mr. Bourdain fails to mention is the burden illegal immigrants put on the United States, such as our already failing education system, the medical industry, and also the fact that illegals push wages down, way down. How naive to think that those who break our laws by virtue of being here illegally will have no negative effects economically or otherwise.

The next scene of the show is Anthony on the Texas-Mexico Border. In essence, his statement was how stupid it would be to build a wall, we are after all friendly neighbors and we really do not have a threat of terrorism, as he later provided someone who shares that same opinion. Additionally, the coyotes bringing over those illegals along with illegal narcotics mean us no harm because after all we are a drug ridden society who want those illegal narcotics over here anyway.

I guess Mr. Bourdain missed the report out last week about coyotes now smuggling men of Middle Eastern dissent rather than Mexicans because it is more financially “lucrative” for them. I suppose these men of Middle Eastern dissent really do not mean us harm and it is a figment of everyone’s imagination that radical Islam wants to take over the world and see the Wests’ demise.

I also loved the condescending attitude regarding the border Texans at the local watering hole. I was really insulted watching him insinuate how stupid Texans really are; after all they speak both Spanish and English, and the crux of their meals are Spanish influenced. They are all just too stupid to realize how influenced they are by our “friendly neighbors”.

The show basically was one big political statement about how we are just reacting to nothing. I respect the fact that Anthony Bourdain is a world traveler and a culinary expert of sorts, but I do not think he understands the bigger picture regarding our culture and our national security.

What really irks me about this is that I do not need a travel channel show to lecture me on the error of my misguided ways; I watch television as a form of escapism because I get reality every day I do research on terrorism and the United States’ foreign policy.

This really could have been an interesting show on Mexican food and culture had politics been left out; instead it left me with a very bad taste in my mouth.

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