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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Luis Urrea
Across The Wire: Life And Hard Times On The Mexican Border
N/A
2010
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Publisher > Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Author > Luis Urrea
Title > Across The Wire: Life And Hard Times On The Mexican Border
Issue > N/A
Year > 2010
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ISBN > 9780307773746
Pages > 208
Genre > Biography-And-Autobiography History Sociology Nonfiction
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > BOOK
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2010-12
Release > 2026-09-30
Disks > 01 x 3 MB
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Luis Alberto Urreas Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented
look atwhat life is like forthose refugees living on theMexicanside of the
bordera world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego but that few
have seenUrrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his work as a
member and official translator of a crew of relief workers that provided
aid to the many refugees hidden just behind the flashy tourist spots of
Tijuana His account of the struggle of these people to survive amid abject
poverty unsanitary living conditions and the legal and political chaos that
reign in the Mexican borderlands explains without a doubt the reason so
many are forced to make the dangerous and illegal journey across the wire
into the United States More than just an
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