Other being drug runner or a migrant, the Border Patrol seemed like the only way to do that. I felt the only way to answer them was to see the realities of the border for myself, to be out in the desert and out on the line day in and day out. I had just spent four years in college studying immigration and border issues, and I felt like I was still filled with all these questions. I felt driven to understand it in every possible way.
For several years I had been investigating it in every way I could think of: I had been reading about it, dreaming about it, visiting both sides whenever I had the chance. When I first considered signing up for the Border Patrol, I was at the point in my life when I’d become completely obsessed with the border. Why did you decide to join the United States Border Patrol? “A must-read for anyone who thinks ‘build a wall’ is the answer to anything.” - Esquire
Searing and unforgettable, The Line Becomes a River goes behind the headlines, making urgent and personal the violence our border wreaks on both sides of the line.”ĭon’t miss out: Cantú will be visiting the City of Asylum Bookstore at Alphabet City on February 17th! 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. Plagued by nightmares, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life.
Cantú tries not to think where the stories go from there. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. 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.
Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. From the Publisher: “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.
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