![]() His mother warned him, “we learn violence by watching others, by seeing it enshrined in institutions. He had trouble sleeping and suffered disturbing dreams, and he felt he was becoming desensitized. But he feared what the experience was doing to him. The author was by all accounts a good agent for some five years, upholding the law without brutalizing those he captured for deportation, as some agents did. ![]() Some were selling drugs, and others just wanted a better life some had to work with a drug cartel in order to finance their escape. ![]() His Mexican mother had worked as a ranger in West Texas, and he had an affinity for the region that spurred his departure from academic life to learn firsthand about patrolling the border and determining the fates of the Mexicans who dared to cross it. A Mexican-American student of international relations becomes a United States Border Patrol agent to learn what he can’t in the classroom.Ĭantú is a talented writer who knows where to find great material, even as he risks losing his soul in the process. ![]()
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