Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border

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            Luis Alberto Urrea’s Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented take a look at what life is like for those refugees living at the Mexican side of the border—a world that may be only a few twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen.  Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his work as a member and “official translator” of a crew of relief workers that provided aid to the many refugees hidden just in the back of the flashy tourist spots of Tijuana.  His account of the struggle of these people to continue to exist amid abject poverty, unsanitary living conditions, and the legal and political chaos that reign in the Mexican borderlands explains indubitably the reason such a lot of are forced to make the dangerous and illegal journey “across the wire” into the USA.
            More than just an expose, Across the Wire is a tribute to the tenacity of a people who have learned to continue to exist against the most unimaginable odds, and returns to these forgotten people their pride and their identity.  

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