Memoir by former Border Patrol agent sparks debate
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.