These visits and ultimatums seemed like a monstrous breach to the residents who had trusted Manzo, but the head of the Border Patrol’s anti-smuggling unit made no secret of what his agents were doing. “With that information, we are bound under the law to find out what their status is,” he said. “Depending on the case, we apprehend them, process them, and send them to Mexico.” By the summer, Border Patrol had deported fifty people, all of them Mexican.
