Yet it takes us beyond one person's experience to reveal truths about life on either side of an arbitrary line, wherever it is. Francisco Cant served as an agent for the United States Border Patrol in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas from 2008 to 2012. It brings to life this landscape of sprawling borderlands and the countless people who risk their lives to cross it. The Line Becomes a River is timely and electrifying. And when an immigrant friend is caught on the wrong side of the border, Cantú faces a final confrontation with a world he believed he had escaped. Haunted by nightmares, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But the line he is sworn to defend is dissolving. He is descended from Mexican immigrants, so the border is in his blood. He tries not to think where the stories go from there. Cant writes of his training and early experiences in the BP, where he served as a Border Patrol Agent (BPA) for four. He detains the exhausted and the parched. Francisco Cant image from Mother Jones by Beowulf Sheehan Although The Line Becomes a River is divided into three parts, two of the parts live on one side of a line and the final part lives, and struggles, on another. Francisco Cantú was an agent for the United States Border Patrol from 2008 to 2012, working in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. He worked the desert along the Mexican border, at the remote crossroads of drug routes and smuggling corridors, tracking humans through blistering days and frigid nights across a vast terrain. How does a line in the sand become a barrier that people will risk everything to cross?įrancisco Cantú was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Line Becomes a River, written and read by Francisco Cantú.
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