On a typical day they process 1,181,605 passengers and pedestrians at America’s ports of entry. By land, air, and sea, working with dogs and horses, they seize narcotics, intercept illicit currency, and try to stanch the flow of illegal immigration. These are the members of the U.S. Border Patrol, doing all they can--and then some--to hold the line.
Career Green Beret and military writer Gerald Schumacher went along with these men and women as they patrolled the Mexican border. His dramatic accounts of these dangerous missions bring a harrowing immediacy to the work that defines the limits of our society. Here are standoffs and raids, smugglers snared and officials at odds, moments of crisis and hours of waiting, hair-trigger action and the reports. This is the front in an undeclared war being fought every day at our borders, and Shumacher’s account brings it home in a powerful and compelling way.
