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From the Radiolab podcast: In Part One of our Border Trilogy, we chronicle an unlikely legal showdown between high schoolers in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country and the U.S. Border Patrol.
While scouring the Sonoran Desert for objects left behind by migrants crossing into the United States, anthropologist Jason De León happened upon something he didn't expect to get left behind: a human arm, stripped of flesh.
This macabre discovery sent him reeling, needing to know what exactly happened to the body, and how many migrants die that way in the wilderness. In researching border-crosser deaths in the Arizona desert, he noticed something surprising: sometime in the late-1990s, the number of migrant deaths shot up dramatically and have stayed high since. Jason traced this increase to a Border Patrol policy still in effect, called Prevention Through Deterrence. Over three episodes, Radiolab will investigate this policy, its surprising origins and the people whose lives were changed forever because of it.
Part 1: Hole in the Fence. We begin one afternoon in May 1992, when a student named Albert stumbled in late for history class at Bowie High School in El Paso, Texas. His excuse: Border Patrol. Soon more stories of students getting stopped and harassed by Border Patrol started pouring in. So begins the unlikely story of how a handful of Mexican-American high schoolers in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country stood up to what is today the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency. They had no way of knowing at the time, but what would follow was a chain of events that would drastically change the U.S.-Mexico border.
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From the Radiolab podcast: In Part One of our Border Trilogy, we chronicle an unlikely legal showdown between high schoolers in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country and the U.S. Border Patrol.
While scouring the Sonoran Desert for objects left behind by migrants crossing into the United States, anthropologist Jason De León happened upon something he didn't expect to get left behind: a human arm, stripped of flesh.
This macabre discovery sent him reeling, needing to know what exactly happened to the body, and how many migrants die that way in the wilderness. In researching border-crosser deaths in the Arizona desert, he noticed something surprising: sometime in the late-1990s, the number of migrant deaths shot up dramatically and have stayed high since. Jason traced this increase to a Border Patrol policy still in effect, called Prevention Through Deterrence. Over three episodes, Radiolab will investigate this policy, its surprising origins and the people whose lives were changed forever because of it.
Part 1: Hole in the Fence. We begin one afternoon in May 1992, when a student named Albert stumbled in late for history class at Bowie High School in El Paso, Texas. His excuse: Border Patrol. Soon more stories of students getting stopped and harassed by Border Patrol started pouring in. So begins the unlikely story of how a handful of Mexican-American high schoolers in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country stood up to what is today the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency. They had no way of knowing at the time, but what would follow was a chain of events that would drastically change the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Video by Michael Snyder and Kim Nowacki.
