- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction The Descendants
- Prologue Nepantla
- Part I The Texas-Mexico Borderlands
- 1 The Miracle Tree
- 2 The Rebel
- 3 The Venerable
- 4 The Activist and the Ordinance
- 5 The Bonder and the Dealer
- 6 The Agents
- 7 The Wall
- 8 The Chokepoint
- 9 The Woman in the Woods
- 10 The Healing
- Part II The New York–Canada Borderlands
- 11 The Sort of Homecoming
- 12 The Trade
- 13 The War
- 14 The Saint
- 15 The Activist and the Obelisk
- 16 The Movement
- 17 The Mother Tongue
- 18 The Bridge
- 19 The River
- 20 The Words That Come Before All Else
- Epilogue The United States of In-between
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
The Chokepoint
The Chokepoint
- Chapter:
- (p.102) 8 The Chokepoint
- Source:
- All the Agents and Saints
- Author(s):
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
The year 2012 broke all records when tiny Brooks County in South Texas recovered the bodies of 129 undocumented immigrants found somewhere along its 942 square miles of ranches and roads. Lead investigator Danny Davila invites the author on the recovery of the 35th body found that year: a woman who had been abandoned by her coyote and left to die three days earlier. Her official cause of death, however, was listed as “hiking through ranch illegally.” In this chapter, the author expands on the history and consequence of U.S. immigration policy.
Keywords: Brooks County, Texas, Falfurrias, Texas, border death, undocumented worker, illegal alien, U.S. Mexico border, human smuggling, Tejano, border patrol agent, human trafficking
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction The Descendants
- Prologue Nepantla
- Part I The Texas-Mexico Borderlands
- 1 The Miracle Tree
- 2 The Rebel
- 3 The Venerable
- 4 The Activist and the Ordinance
- 5 The Bonder and the Dealer
- 6 The Agents
- 7 The Wall
- 8 The Chokepoint
- 9 The Woman in the Woods
- 10 The Healing
- Part II The New York–Canada Borderlands
- 11 The Sort of Homecoming
- 12 The Trade
- 13 The War
- 14 The Saint
- 15 The Activist and the Obelisk
- 16 The Movement
- 17 The Mother Tongue
- 18 The Bridge
- 19 The River
- 20 The Words That Come Before All Else
- Epilogue The United States of In-between
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
