Sue Perkins: Along The US-Mexico Border - BBC1

If Donald Trump wins a second term, Sue Perkins could find it just as difficult to enter the US as the South American refugees she met in her two-part series Sue Perkins: Along The US-Mexico Border.

Part travelogue and part polemic, the programme opened with Perkins exploring Tijuana, which we were told was one of the most dangerous places on Earth. To her surprise, it turned out to be the party town

to beat all party towns, with mariachi bands on every corner.

She breakfasted with a local family on chocolate and cheese tortillas. Next stop was an off-licence specialising in tequila, where she sank enough of the firewater to kill a donkey. If Montezuma’s revenge didn’t catch up with her after that, she must have a cast-iron stomach.

It was only when she got on to the issue of the wall that Trump had promised to build that she began to wax political. After she talked with a woman who was only allowed to touch her husband’s fingertip through a gap in a fence, Sue said: “The more we shut doors, the more we shut out our humanity.”

It was a noble thought, but perhaps one for a documentary presented by someone with a bit more gravitas. One minute we’re watching a lot of American pensioners living it up on a diet of cheap booze and even cheaper marijuana, the next we meet a Mexican woman whose 16-year-old was shot to death by a US Border Patrol guard, whose defence was that the boy had thrown a rock at him. The guard shot him three times in the back.

There was a moment in the second episode when the camera turned on a digger building part of the wall that Steve Bannon had raised funds for, before he was alleged to have pocketed some of the cash. Timely, or what?