Immigration | Chapter 3 Preface

On March 22, 2000, the frozen body of twenty-year-old Jose Luis Uriostegua was discovered on Mount Laguna in east San Diego County, nearly twenty miles north of the U.S.- Mexico border. Uriostegua had fled from Guerrero, a poverty-stricken state in Mexico, in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his family in the United States. When his remains were found, Uriostegua was identified as “Number 500”—the five hundredth person to die while trying to elude the U.S. Border Patrol under California’s “Operation Gatekeeper” program.

Operation Gatekeeper began in 1994...

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