Elephants On Parade At The Border

Raj Bhakta, Republican candidate for the 13th District U.S. House of Representatives seat in Eastern Congress in Pennsylvania, recently took a trip to the US-Mexico border, and to demonstrate the lax security, took three elephants and a six-piece mariachi band across the Rio Grande. "To my surprise, the band played on, the elephants splashed away, and nobody showed up," Bhakta said. "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," said Raj Peter Bhakta, a former star on the NBC show "The Apprentice." Three elephants, two African and an Asian, were taken out to a ranch near Boca Chica beach to perform.

Bhakta was in Brownsville to raise funds with friends and decided to get a first-hand look at border security while he was here. In Brownsville, he witnessed half a dozen men swim under one of the international bridges "with complete immunity" which in turn prompted him to take the immigration issue to the next level. Bhakta decided to see if he could get an elephant accompanied by a six-piece mariachi band across the river. Bhakta favors supports a border fence, local law enforcement assistance with immigration laws and the use of the National Guard troops to help the U.S. Border Patrol.