Dispatches from Arizona-the entrance line of a massive individual migration-including the voices of migrants, Boundary Patrol, ranchers, activists, while others

Going back decade, Margaret Regan has reported in the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico boundary, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants mix into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, circumstances whose anti-immigrant laws will be the most strict in the country. And Arizona gets the highest amount of migrant deaths..Read More on the subject of The Death of Josseline: Immigration Tales from the Arizona Borderlands Fourteen-year-old Josseline, a girl from Un Salvador who was left to pass away alone on the migrant trail, was just one of thousands to perish in its deserts and mountains.

Having a sweeping perspective and vivid on-the-ground reportage, Regan tells the tales of the people swept up with this international tragedy. Traveling backwards and forwards across the border, she appointments migrants stranded in Mexican shelters and trips shotgun with Border Patrol realtors in Arizona, trekking with them all night in the scorching desert; she camps out in the thorny wilderness with No More Deaths activists and fits with upset ranchers and vigilantes. Using Arizona being a microcosm, Regan explores a bunch of urgent problems: the boundary militarization that threatens the rights of U.S. citizens, the environmental damage wrought from the boundary wall structure, the desperation that compels migrants to come north, as well as the human tragedy of the unidentified dead in Arizona’s morgues.