Smuggled Across the Mexican-U.S. Border
(2017)Four Days in the Deadly Arizona Desert
A non fiction book by John Lantigua
A true-account by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.
Today, an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States. Most of them crossed the Mexican border illegally and the majority of those were smuggled across the broiling Arizona desert. At the height of that influx, thousands of people crossed per night. The U.S. Border Patrol finds hundreds dead from dehydration every year and human rights organizations say more than 10,000 have perished since 1995.
American reporter John Lantigua, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was smuggled across the Arizona desert with a small group of clandestine border crossers who were looking to work in the U.S. The journey took four days, with temperatures topping 108 degrees. He was then smuggled across the U.S. from Phoenix to Florida by operatives of a modern day "underground railroad" that distributed workers to their new employers. This is his story and the story of millions of the undocumented now in the U.S.
About the Author:
Lantigua shared the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Goldsmith Prize from Harvard's Kennedy School for the Miami Herald's reports on a tainted mayoral election.
In both 2004 and 2006 he won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Prize and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Award for Investigative Reporting for his work on migrant laborers in the United States (2004) and on the dangerous misuse of pesticides in the fields of Florida (2006).
Today, an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States. Most of them crossed the Mexican border illegally and the majority of those were smuggled across the broiling Arizona desert. At the height of that influx, thousands of people crossed per night. The U.S. Border Patrol finds hundreds dead from dehydration every year and human rights organizations say more than 10,000 have perished since 1995.
American reporter John Lantigua, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was smuggled across the Arizona desert with a small group of clandestine border crossers who were looking to work in the U.S. The journey took four days, with temperatures topping 108 degrees. He was then smuggled across the U.S. from Phoenix to Florida by operatives of a modern day "underground railroad" that distributed workers to their new employers. This is his story and the story of millions of the undocumented now in the U.S.
About the Author:
Lantigua shared the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Goldsmith Prize from Harvard's Kennedy School for the Miami Herald's reports on a tainted mayoral election.
In both 2004 and 2006 he won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Prize and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Award for Investigative Reporting for his work on migrant laborers in the United States (2004) and on the dangerous misuse of pesticides in the fields of Florida (2006).
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