More stupid media tricks

I happened across this blurb from a couple weeks back while reading Mickey Kaus:

Another sneering op-ed arguing the Mexican border fence has an "effectiveness" problem because in San Diego, when 14 miles were built, people stopped crossing there! They went elsewhere to cross!


A little-noticed Congressional Research Service report issued Dec. 12 indicates that expanding the California wall makes little sense. After the San Diego wall went up, apprehensions in the area were reduced, the CRS reports. But "there is ample evidence that flow of illegal immigration ... shifted to more remote areas of the Arizona desert."


See? It won't work because where it's been tried it worked. Q.E.D.

Never underestimate the stupidity of those who run newspapers.