Antigone Books

For nearly a decade, journalist  Margaret Regan has reported on the chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border.  Undocumented migrants like 14 year-old Josseline cross into the state in overwhelming numbers, pushed into its dangerous deserts by a U.S. border policy that seals off safer urban crossings.  And Arizona has the highest number of migrant deaths.  Traveling to both sides of the border, she visits migrants stranded in Mexican shelters and rides shotgun with the Border Patrol, hiking with them in the scorching Arizona desert.  She camps in the back country with "No More Deaths" activists and speaks to angry ranchers and vigilantes.  Regan writes firsthand of the desperation that compels people to cross, of the environmental damage wrought by the new border wall, and of the unidentified bodies piled up in a Tucson morgue.