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Francisco Cantú On His New Memoir And Violence On The Border

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Multiple layers of steel walls, fences, razor wire and other barricades are viewed from the United States side of the of the U.S.-Mexico border on Jan. 26, 2017 in San Ysidro, Calif. (David McNew/AFP/Getty Images)
Multiple layers of steel walls, fences, razor wire and other barricades are viewed from the United States side of the of the U.S.-Mexico border on Jan. 26, 2017 in San Ysidro, Calif. (David McNew/AFP/Getty Images)

Francisco Cantú spent four years as an agent for the United States Border Patrol. He worked on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. He recounts this experience in his new memoir, "The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border."

Francisco Cantú will be discussing his memoir at the Harvard Book Store on Friday, February 16 at 7:00 PM. More information can be found online. 

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Francisco Cantú, former border patrol agent and author of the memoir, The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border. He tweets @_franciscocantu.

This segment aired on February 15, 2018.

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