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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
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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.
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