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    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.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Feb 22, 2018 • 1 min read

    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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      Madeleine Brand

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      Francisco Cantú

      Author of “The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From The Border”

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