Francisco Cantú

Francisco Cantú is the author of The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border. (March 2023)

An American Story

Kelly Lytle Hernández’s latest book chronicles the tumultuous period leading up to the Mexican Revolution, casting the border as ground zero for continental change.

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

by Kelly Lytle Hernández

March 23, 2023 issue

A migrant child looking through the US-Mexico border fence, Tijuana, November 2018

The Lie of American Asylum

Three new books offer searing portraits of the people affected by family separations and the criminalization of asylum in the Trump era.

Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants

by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond

by John Washington

The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border

by Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo

November 5, 2020 issue

‘Has Any One of Us Wept?’

The deadly transformation of our southwestern borderlands

January 17, 2019 issue

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