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Francisco Cantu

This person worked for about four years as a U.S. Border Patrol officer, later leaving this line of work to conduct research on a scholarship from the U.S. Department of State and to focus on writing.

Francisco Cantu's Mother

This person is the parent of the narrator of the book and is never identified by name. This person worked an entire career for the U.S. National Parks Service.

Hayward

This person supervises a main character during that character's job in the Tucson, Arizona Border Patrol Intelligence office following the main character's switch to a desk job from field work along the border.

Jose

This person is a Mexican immigrant who works several jobs. When this person crosses the border into Mexico to visit a dying parent and then tries to enter the United States again, the person is arrested because of being an undocumented...

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