Summary

The prologue begins with a father and son’s story of escaping the dangerous drug cartel area of Petén, Guatemala and their arrival at the border of Arizona. The story shifts in Chapter 1 to Soboroff covering the 2016 Presidential campaign and the acceptance speech of the Republican nominee Donald Trump. Soboroff is dismissive of Trump’s border wall proclamation simply because it does not match the reality of his experience as a journalist. When he asks Border Patrol whether a wall would help, the agents state that they are managing fine without one.

Soboroff details the complex ways in which the Obama administration handled mass deportations and lists their suggested ideas of controlling the influx of immigrants. Two possible policies were indefinite detentions and criminally charging immigrants with illegally entering the country. The latter would result in children being separated from the families...