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Francisco Cantú was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012.In this extraordinary account, he describes his work in the desert along the Mexican border. He tracks humans through blistering days and frigid nights. He detains the exhausted and hauls in the dead. The line he is sworn to defend, however, begins to dissolve. Haunted by nightmares, Cantú abandons the Patrol for civilian life - but he soon faces a final confrontation with the world he believed he had escaped.

Illegal aliens --- Border security --- Social aspects --- Cantú, Francisco --- Mexican-American Border Region --- Emigration and immigration. --- Cantú, Francisco --- #KVHA:Taalkunde; Spaans --- #KVHA:Cultuurgeschiedenis; Verenigde Staten --- #KVHA:Immigratie; Verenigde Staten --- #KVHA:Mexicaanse grens; Verenigde Staten --- Border control --- Border management --- Boundaries --- Cross-border security --- National security --- Aliens --- Aliens, Illegal --- Illegal immigrants --- Illegal immigration --- Undocumented aliens --- Alien detention centers --- Human smuggling --- Security measures --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- American-Mexican Border Region --- Border Region, American-Mexican --- Border Region, Mexican-American --- Borderlands (Mexico and U.S.) --- Mexico-United States Border Region --- Tierras Fronterizas de México-Estados Unidos --- United States-Mexico Border Region

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A former agent for the U.S. Border Patrol describes his upbringing as the son of a park ranger and grandson of a Mexican immigrant, who encountered the violence and political rhetoric that overshadows life for both migrants and the police.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. --- Border security --- Border security --- Emigration and immigration. --- Employees. --- Extranjeros ilegales --- Illegal aliens --- Illegal aliens. --- Materiales en español. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Cantú, Francisco, --- Cantú, Francisco, --- U.S. Border Patrol --- U.S. Border Patrol. --- Officials and employees --- Frontera México-Estadounidense (Región) --- Mexican-American Border Region --- North America --- Emigración e inmigración. --- Emigration and immigration.

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Fifty years ago, A. Turing predicted that by 2000 we would have a machine that could pass the Turing test. Although this may not yet be true, AI has advanced significantly in these 50 years, and at the dawn of the XXI century is still an active and challenging field. This year is also significant for AI in Mexico, with the merging of the two major AI conferences into the biennial Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) series. MICAI is the union of the Mexican National AI Conference (RNIA) and the International AI Symposium (ISAI), organized annually by the Mexican Society for AI (SMIA,since1984) and by the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM, since1988), respectively. The first Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2000, took place April 11-14, 2000, in the city of Acapulco, Mexico.ThisconferenceseekstopromoteresearchinAI,andcooperationamong Mexican researchers and their peers worldwide. We welcome you all. Over 163 papers from 17 different countries were submitted for consideration to MICAI 2000. After reviewing them thoroughly, MICAI’s program committee, referees, and program chair accepted 60 papers for the international track. This volume contains the written version of the papers and invited talks presented at MICAI. We would like to acknowledge the support of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). We are specially grateful for the warm hospitality and generosity o?ered by the Acapulco Institute of Technology.

Artificial intelligence --- Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer science. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer Science. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Artificial Intelligence. --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers