Hole In The Fence Summary

Part One: Hole in the Fence Jason, who was supposed to be an archeologist, had his world turned around when he reads a book about the United States and Mexico Border. He became exposed to the horrors of the border that he never saw, even though he lived in Texas and was a son of immigrant parents. He visited the border to see the area where the book took place. When he arrived, he saw thousands of ripped clothes, socks, bandages, dresses, backpacks, toys, and wrapper, and these were the items of smuggled immigrants. Eventually, when looking and collecting the items, he found a complete arm hidden in the remains. From here, they found other body parts and then the realization comes over that no one will know that that individual was gone or what had happened to them. He ended up finding many and many cases of missing individuals and the deaths of them. These horrors of immigration and

The “Mexican peso crashed,” so many illegal immigrants were coming to and fro the United States to make money. Since there could be up to “10,000” people crossing the Southern border a day, Border control agents had to investigate around the surrounding areas because catching all of the migrants would be impossible at the first sight in the beginning. Hunter said that “for every 1 individual they caught, there was about 4 to 5 immigrants they did not catch.” There was a hole in the fence “50 steps from the high school campus,” and this means that many people would slip through the fence, possibly with drugs, and travel through the high school campus. The Border Control would concentrate their investigations on campus and “would stop people mainly based upon their skin color.” This did not sink into many of the students because at this time, they were used to being discriminated against, but the adults and teachers who saw what was going on were angered by the patrol’s