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All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands

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After a decade of chasing stories around the world, intrepid go back and forth creator Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home–only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had turn into the nation’s foremost crossing ground for undocumented workers, many of whom perished along the way. The frequency of these tragedies appeared like a terrible accident, before Elizondo Griest moved to the New York / Canada borderlands. Once she started to meet Mohawks from the Akwesasne Nation, then again, she recognized striking parallels to life on the southern border. Having lost their land through devious treaties, their mother tongues at English-only schools, and their traditional occupations through capitalist ventures, Tejanos and Mohawks alike struggle under the legacy of colonialism. Toxic industries surround their neighborhoods whilst the U.S. Border Patrol militarizes them. Combating these forces are legions of artists and activists devoted to preserving their indigenous cultures. Complex belief systems, meanwhile, conjure miracles. In All the Agents and Saints, Elizondo Griest weaves seven years of stories into a meditation on the existential have an effect on of international borderlines by illuminating the spaces in between and the people who live there.

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