![]() ![]() ![]() Although he enters the Border Patrol as a youthful idealist, confident that nothing he encounters there could shake his morality or sense of self, he painfully acquires a much more complex understanding of how institutions can damage the people within and around them. As a young adult, after studying the border in college, Cantú gets a job as a Border Patrol agent, hoping to improve his understanding of the border through proximity. However, Cantú’s mother was careful to preserve a sense of his Mexican heritage, and her work as a park ranger led her and Cantú to various spots around the American West and Southwest during his infancy (though he spent most of his childhood in Arizona), so he grew up with some understanding of the U.S.–Mexico border. He’s the grandson of a Mexican migrant, and his parents separated when he was young. Francisco Cantú is the author, narrator, and protagonist of The Line Becomes a River, which charts his experiences as a field agent in the United States Border Patrol. ![]()
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