By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border

Urrea has a tragic "untouchable class" in Mexico, evangelical enthusiasm to convey border citizens abandoned by the country, sometimes their own relatives. This series of support like California missionaries helping provide food and medicine to orphanages and residents of suede dump near Tijuana began with urea for many years, like "crossing the wire". Here, the lives of people are completely defined by this world of rubbish decomposition. Do they use their hidden treasure to make use of their livelihoods? Food cans, abandoned clothes, and wood scraps like houses. Passion festers, eruptions, nobility and sacrifice coexist with greed, cruelty, anger. Dual governments with armed robbery and respect for the local community are dominant. Urrea tried to explain why he did not make any judgment in ten different intimacy, riveted articles, but why his subjects risked raising the possibility that everyone would cross the border. Their poverty causes unintelligible behaviors and it is difficult to understand unless people are in their situation. Urrea shared their lives, and he gave a strong opinion to those responsible for this pain, and worried that it foretelled the future direction of the United States. In our era when escalating foreign phobia it is worth reading

This book is called "Lake of Sleep". This book explains the secret life of the Meixian border. The main focus is on the border between Tijuana and San Diego; the difference from the other side of the fence is different from people who live better living in America. It is very uneasy that people often see inequality in Mexico. Illegal immigrants are not even considered ordinary people, but they became the courage of everyone else. They encountered the wire in the dark at night and saw other people across the fence crossing the gate (those who enjoyed liberty). They are dreaming of having everything we have as citizens, not as us; we want to move from one place to another, to our fantasies and expensive clothes Place the bed on. We did not even know that the fruits and vegetables we ate in this fun way were picked up by them and washed in their own sweat.

The first book by Luis Alberto Urea "Life on the Mexican border and hard times" is unbelievable. Life on the frontier of Mexico seems to have never been before but the most disappointing is the southern part. White sandy beaches and coral reefs in California. His keen, widely acclaimed explanation about the struggle of these people in poor and unsanitary living environments and the legal and political turmoil of Mexico's border regulations vividly counts so many people ' In 16 disappearing portraits forced to cross 'an illegal journey', Urrea reveals the fear and simple pleasures of the people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico and the United States - both ignored It will be. Report a wonderful memorable work