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...AGENT Manjarrez knows what it means to want to come to the U.S. His father did it on foot at the age of nine. Victor Sr. illegally crossed into Arizona after traveling 800 miles from his hometown of Te-pic, Nayarit, in west-central Mexico. He had only a second-grade education and spoke no English. "I have a 14-year-old son now," says the border patrol chief, "and I cannot imagine him doing the same thing. [My father] didn't have a childhood, but when I ask him why he did it, he says, 'I didn't have...
Manjarrez's father crossed 50 years ago and began a life that matches that of many people his son is trying to apprehend today. Victor Sr. made his way to Tucson, Ariz., worked as a dishwasher and a meat cutter and every month sent money back to his family in Nayarit. They teased him about how proud he was to be an American and nicknamed him Eisenhower. He raised his two children in the U.S. and sent his eldest--Victor Jr.--to college, then saw him join the U.S. border patrol. Its ranks are filled with agents who have similar...
...tell them I am just doing a job. But it gives me a bit of insight, a different degree of compassion." If he forgets, his father is quick to remind him. When he visits his father's home in Tucson, Victor Sr. sometimes yells out the front window, "Viene la Migra!" (the ins is coming...
Then again, most fathers don't own an NFL franchise. After Ford Sr. bought the Detroit Lions, Junior was deeply impressed by the beating his father took in the local papers when the team went downhill. After all, football matters. "There were days when I was a kid when the local columnists would just rip into my father, and I'd just cry," says Ford. "But it also taught me not to believe in your own press, because once you do, the house of cards just falls...
Longtime loyalist and State Department spokeswoman for Bush Sr. helped out during Florida recount...