She says networks online can provide more intimacy than neighbors down the street.

Marc Cooper is a Senior Fellow at USC’s Institute for Justice and Journalism. He is also a contributing editor at the Nation magazine, a columnist at L.A. Weekly and a regular commentator for the Los Angeles Times Sunday Opinion section.

He says that the border between Mexico and the United States can’t be controlled by a fence.

Cooper says the media’s presenting immigration through the eyes of politicians and missing the point.

He says work permits for Mexicans would control the flow of immigration.

The reality of the border is “a little flat piece of land with four miles of fence and then…1,800 miles of mountains,” says Cooper.