{"id":1092,"date":"2006-07-28T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2006-07-28T13:54:11","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T20:54:11","slug":"girls-gone-border-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/girls-gone-border-patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls Gone Border Patrol!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/news\/news\/girls-gone-border-patrol\/14089\/\">LA Weekly<\/a>:<br \/>\n<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another day, and what sounds like another arrest on the Arizona border. Naco is a city where \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Border\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is no abstraction. It is the painfully real corrugated-steel barrier \u00e2\u20ac\u201d rusted in spots, barbed in others \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that slices the town neatly in two. One half for the United States, one half for Mexico. In Naco, the border is where illegal immigrants and the Border Patrol come to perform their intricate ballet of catch-and-release.<\/p>\n<p>But Helen is no ordinary agent, and her prey is no real fence hopper. Helen wears a close-enough-to-be-real Border Patrol uniform and a severe expression on her otherwise impish face. Her wispy brown eyes are timid and hard to catch. She enunciates her words almost too carefully, aware of their precocious power. She is just 14 years old. While many other girls her age are filling the chatmosphere with gabby text messages, Helen is practicing arresting illegal immigrants. (Or, in this case, her friend Courtney.)<\/p>\n<p>Helen, along with 20 other teens, is an officially certified Border Patrol Explorer Scout. The 90-day training program, started last year by the Boy Scouts, exposes teens, ages 14 through 17, to a career with the Border Patrol. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It gives you a cool feeling, like you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a real agent or something,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Helen.<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol Captain Terrence Ford started off with the basics of statutory and criminal law. But the fare quickly became more challenging \u00e2\u20ac\u201d if not controversial. The teens learn to raid buildings. They learn to pull cars off the road. They learn to shoot guns. They even learn to track \u00e2\u20ac\u0153illegal immigrants\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or advisers dressed as illegal immigrants \u00e2\u20ac\u201d on moonless nights with night-vision goggles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Weekly: Another day, and what sounds like another arrest on the Arizona border. Naco is a city where \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Border\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is no abstraction. It is the painfully real corrugated-steel barrier \u00e2\u20ac\u201d rusted in spots, barbed in others \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that slices the town neatly in two. One half for the United States, one half for Mexico. In Naco, the border is where illegal immigrants and the Border Patrol come to perform their intricate ballet of catch-and-release. 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