Ironies ain't a new thing: Here's a Border Patrol Hispanic's book about chasing his own down
Nothing new. We literate peeps have read books about complicity - how this and that group collaborated with Nazis and such. How individuals in war did a cowardly thing or two.
Veteran and decades-shining Dem Charlie RANGEL fearlessly tore down the jingoism by saying minorities served in the military for other-than reasons, like economics.
So j'ever notice how minorities (read, "lots of Hispanics" ) are employed in Border jobs arresting other Hispanics, and that personal CONFLICTS might be involved? A lawyer-smart relative told a dude like him, "What matters is that THEY broke the law." So here's this fellow with a book about it.
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https://www.apnews.com/eda889b3c0694350be330f9294bb2750/Memoir-by-former-Border-Patrol-agent-sparks-debate?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APWestRegion
PHOENIX (AP) — Francisco Cantu said he joined the Border Patrol at age 23 to get an on-the-ground education in international relations.
Now 32, he says he didn’t expect his new memoir examining some of the agency’s uglier aspects would spark protests by far-left groups denouncing him for the enforcement work and forcing him to cancel some talks promoting “The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border.”
He said he agrees with much of the criticism from the left — even though it caught him off guard — and had expected most of the backlash to come from the right.
Cantu told his detractors on Twitter: “To be clear: during my years as a BP agent, I was complicit in perpetuating institutional violence and flawed, deadly policy. My book is about acknowledging that, it’s about thinking through the ways we normalize violence and dehumanize migrants as individuals and as a society.”
Cantu said he wrote the book to make sense of his time with the patrol.
“Writing the book was a way to come to terms with what I had participated in, a job that made me normalize a certain amount of violence,” Cantu said. “I tried not to draw conclusions, but offer descriptions of what happened and a reflection of my state of mind.” ....
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