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Border & Immigration

Tijuana-born Author Delves into Cross-border Life

Tijuana-born Author Delves into Cross-border Life

Originally aired on February 3, 2009.

Maureen Cavanaugh : The movement of undocumented immigrants from Mexico into the United States has inspired lots of controversy, lots of politics and lots of anxiety on both sides of the border.

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It has also inspired a great book, written by my guest, Luis Alberto Urrea. The nonfiction book "The Devil's Highway" has won several awards and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. It is a story that follows a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, and it is written in a way that would make no reader surprised to learn that the author is also a poet.

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