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Author of “The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From The Border”
Author of “The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From The Border”
PROFILE
Francisco Cantú
FROM Francisco Cantú
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Hard truths about what it means to be a border patrol agent Francisco Cantu grew up near the U.S.-Mexico border, and he wanted to understand it better -- the policy fights over it, the people who cross it. So he joined the border patrol. We talk to him about what he saw as an agent, and why he quit. Francisco Cantu is a former border patrol agent. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.
Design and Architecture
Bridges and Walls: The Border Wall Can a wall also act as a bridge? The U.S.-Mexico border wall stretches along 700 miles. It divides two nations that are strategic allies and trading partners, and continues to divide Americans along partisan lines. It also “brings people together in really remarkable and interesting ways,” and DnA tells their stories.
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