The border patrol ate my dust /
[compiled by] Alicia Alarcón ; English translation by Ethriam Cash Brammer de Gonzales.
- 1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations.
Originally published as: La migra me hizo los mandados. Houston, TX : Arte Público, 2002.
Dark Angel -- My Name Is Pedro Infante and He's Jorge Negrete -- Some Nachos to Go -- I Saw How They Raped Her -- The killings Were Commonplace -- All I Thought about Was Disneyland -- We Arrived at the Town of "Thank God" -- A Honeymoon on the Road -- A Discount for Telling the Truth -- The Old Smoocher -- It Scared the Tapeworms Out of Her -- Get Me Down, Before I Slap You Silly! -- He Sold Me to the Armenian -- The Girl from Nicaragua Was Washed Away by the River -- God Made Us Disappear from the Border Patrol -- We Were Short 1,400 Quetzals -- The Shot Hit Right Next to Me -- My Cousins Came over from California -- After All I Had Done for Him...and He Betrayed Me -- For the Love of My "Princess" -- She Had Just Given Birth -- Dreamers Never Lose Heart -- They're Coming after Us -- Mine Is the Same Story as So Many Other Children -- A Pack of Tortillas Was All We Had to Eat -- Could It Be the Feathers in Our Hats? -- Everyone from the North Shows up Looking "All Fly" -- They Told Me That You Could Make a Lot of Money -- We Landed in France, Not in New York.
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