The line becomes a river : dispatches from the border / Francisco Cantú.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 250 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780735217713
- 0735217718
- Cantú, Francisco (Essayist)
- U.S. Border Patrol -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- U.S. Border Patrol
- Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration
- Illegal aliens -- Mexican-American Border Region
- Border security -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region
- Illegal aliens -- Mexican-American Border Region
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- Border security -- Social aspects
- Emigration and immigration
- Employees
- Illegal aliens
- North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
- Grenzwächter
- Illegaler Einwanderer
- Mexiko
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- Illegal aliens -- Mexican-American Border Region
- Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration
- 363.28/5092 B 23
- JV6565 .C37 2018
- BIO002000 | BIO026000
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Harrison Memorial Library BIOGRAPHY | Adult Nonfiction | BIO CANTU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31624003832151 |
Subtitle from dust jacket.
"For Francisco Cantú the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, where they learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Cantú tries not to think where the stories go from there. Plagued by nightmares, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the whole story."-- Provided by publisher.
"A former Border Patrol agent's haunting experience of an unnatural divide and the lives caught on either side, struggling to cross or to defend it"-- Provided by publisher.
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