A hike with U.S Border Patrol agents through an illegal immigrant trail | illegal, way, immigrant - TheMonitor.com: "Border Patrol officials recently invited members of the media to experience what its agents and the immigrants they encounter face each day. The agency hopes that chronicling the hardship will deter people from entering the country illegally as summer sets in and conditions for illegally crossing the border and trekking across South Texas become increasingly perilous.
What follows is my account of a day in their shoes — although, frankly, I’m not sure which I felt like more: an immigrant or an agent."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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