04065nam 2200757Ia 450 991096027740332120250704112754.09781611926088161192608497816119207411611920744(CKB)2670000000185716(EBL)3115188(SSID)ssj0000652486(PQKBManifestationID)11398771(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652486(PQKBWorkID)10642108(PQKB)10224033(Au-PeEL)EBL3115188(CaPaEBR)ebr10555626(OCoLC)922965576(MiAaPQ)EBC3115188(Perlego)2968671(NyNyDIG)DIGARTEP0066(EXLCZ)99267000000018571620040514d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe border patrol ate my dust /[compiled by] Alicia Alarcon ; English translation by Ethriam Cash Brammer de Gonzales1st ed.Houston, Tex. Arte Publicoc20041 online resource (207 p.)Originally published as: La migra me hizo los mandados. Houston, TX : Arte Publico, 2002.9781558854321 1558854320 ""Cover ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents ""In 1979, Mexican President José López Portilla assured his compatriots that the prosperity of the petroleum boom would reach every corner of the Republic of Mexico. The young narrator of the first passage listens agape at the president's statements, while his work-weary parents contemplate a trip to el Norte. When the promised prosperity doesn't reach the corners of San Luis Potosí, the narrator sets out with his father to try to improve their finances. With the dream of the wealthy Hollywood that he sees on television tucked in his pocket, he, along with the other narrators in this collection of testimonials, struggles to reach the United States. Radio personality Alicia Alarcón invited listeners who had migrated to the United States to call and share their stories. In these pages, Alarcón collects the footsteps of these travelers, through their flight and their falls. Their stories highlight the true American experience for immigrants from all over South and Central America who decide to leave their respective homelands. These intriguing but heartbreaking passages reveal young and old, men and women, who must overcome the impossible as they hope to find a better place than the one they've left behind. These difficult and gritty stories are the stories of the successful, the ones who make it across, past the natural and the bureaucratic obstacles along the border, only to scratch together lives on the other side. Central American AmericansCaliforniaBiographySouth American AmericansCaliforniaBiographyImmigrantsCaliforniaBiographyCentral American AmericansCaliforniaSocial conditionsSouth American AmericansCaliforniaSocial conditionsImmigrantsCaliforniaSocial conditionsCaliforniaBiographyCentral AmericaEmigration and immigrationCase studiesSouth AmericaEmigration and immigrationCase studiesUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationCase studiesCentral American AmericansSouth American AmericansImmigrantsCentral American AmericansSocial conditions.South American AmericansSocial conditions.ImmigrantsSocial conditions.979.4/00468728Alarcon Alicia1953-1804238Brammer Ethriam Cash1804239MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910960277403321The border patrol ate my dust4352154UNINA