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The Border Patrol’s After School Program

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In border towns across the country, high school students are participating in an after school program run by the U.S. Border Patrol. When journalist Morley Musick first encountered the Border Patrol Explorers, he saw it as another example of the contradictions of life on the border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ah, the sound of spring cleaning.

0:03.6

Steam clean your way to brighter bathrooms

0:06.6

and sparkling kitchens with the carcass deen cleaner.

0:09.6

You'll be done before you know it,

0:11.6

with more time to pitch your feet up.

0:14.6

Find your carcass deen cleaner at carcature.co.uk

0:18.4

or a carcure retailer.

0:24.4

Morley Music is a journalist.

0:26.8

Moved to Ajo Arizona last year to cover the border.

0:29.6

He figured it'd see some National Guardsmen

0:32.0

write a couple of articles.

0:34.0

Once I was there, I just started talking to people

0:36.0

and I learned of how sort of strange daily life

0:42.0

is in Ajo and in border communities

0:44.4

and the kind of contradictions that arise

0:47.2

that I just became interested in that.

0:49.2

You could see these contradictions,

0:51.2

he says, at the local high school.

0:53.6

It's tiny, just a hundred or so students.

0:56.8

But Morley says many of the kids here

0:58.8

commute to the US from the other side of the border.

1:02.4

Technically, that is against the rules.

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