Morley Music is a journalist.

Moved to Ajo, Arizona last year to cover the border.

He figured he'd see some National Guardsmen, write a couple of articles.

Once I was there, I just started talking to people and I learned of how sort of strange daily life is in Ajo and in border communities and the kind of

contradictions that arise that I just became interested in that.

You could see these contradictions, he says, at the local high school.

It's tiny, just 100 or so students.

But Morley says many of the kids here commute to the U.S. from the other side of the border.

Technically, that is against the rules.

But administrators have reasons for looking the other way.

Yeah, because they get paid per head, I believe.

So it shows how the community relies on Mexico while pushing it aside at the same time.

So one portion of the community, their education, which is really an anchor, relies on Mexican students.

On the other hand, there are a number of Border Patrol agents that live in these

communities who also benefit from the sort of myth of just invading hordes of migrants.

Morley started wondering about the kids at this school, how they interacted with the people

who police the border.

So I started asking them about it.

I just happened to be in the main plaza in Ajo during the high school lunch break.

And there were some boys who were chatting in Spanish and I struck up a conversation with them.

Again and again, kids would tell him that being a Border Patrol agent, it sounded like a pretty good job.

Two of them said they wanted to be Border Patrol agents, and then a third friend walked over.

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