Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. (Books in review: getting by). (book review)
American Prospect, The, January, 2002 by Rips, Geoff
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail By Ruben Martinez. Metropolitan Books, 330 pages, $26.00 Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted ... They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves. We died in your hills, we died in your deserts, We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes, Both sides of the river, we died just the same. ... Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves? The radio says, "They are just ...
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