The Border Through the Eyes of a Border Patrol Agent
Francisco Cantú, former border patrol agent, writer and the author of The Line Becomes a River (Riverhead, 2019), talks about the people he met while policing the border, and comments on the immigration and border debates now in the news.
"No matter what version of hell you implement on the border people are going to cross and endure it in order to get to the other side. Especially if there’s… security of safety from certain death or violence that you’re fleeing in home country," says @_franciscocantu.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 13, 2019
"Crossings have doubled in a short period of time from a historic low... in a lot of ways people are scrambling to get across right now because they don’t know what the next horrible thing is going to happen," says @_franciscocantu.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 13, 2019
"What I think about as a writer is the language we use to talk about immigration and the border as a place and cultural landscape. The rhetoric we use and see from the media is a profoundly dehumanizing. That’s the first step," says @_franciscocantu.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 13, 2019
