Reposted by Mary Fontana
@maryfontanawrites.bsky.social from Issue 93, Fall 2026
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Mary Fontana
@maryfontanawrites.bsky.social
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Author of *Strangers in the Province of Joy: Practicing Radical Hospitality on the US-Mexico Border*, out now from Orbis Books. Annunciation House volunteer, writer, lapsed immunologist, mother of two. She/her.
!["Let me see if I understand. If Agent [Redacted] crashes his patrol car into a telephone pole while pulling out of a 7/11, does he need to file a report?
Of course.
But if he shoots a man, he doesn’t need to file a report?
That’s right.
Your honor, I don’t mean to be flippant. But I wonder, if Agent [Redacted] had run over Juan Patricio with his car, and killed him, and done some damage to the vehicle, at least a memo might have been generated."
-El Paso Attorney Enrique Moreno speaking to a Border Patrol witness in the trial following the 2003 lethal shooting of a 19-year-old Mexican immigrant.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:267koxhqthvnuqcstp2fwkz4/bafkreif2k3x36hhxfghgnxjrzzfmjrt52rohsw2pgbsb6eqs7bqqwhfmx4)
