page 251: Agents found his crumbled figure . . . Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, Joseph D. Pistone, 1989; History of X: 100 Years of Sex on Film, Luke Ford, 1999
page 252: Segall’s home in Los Angeles . . . Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography: Final Report (Meese Report), Part 4, Chapter 4
page 252: In 1991, Godfrey Daniels had . . . http://www.strategic-operations.com/team/stu-segall/
page 252: One day–the story goes–DEA agents . . . Interview Kim Zirpolo
page 253: Even in make-believe, problems arose . . . “Wounds in Simulated Capture End Lance Corporal’s Career,” Debbi Farr Baker, San Diego Union-Tribune, October 15, 2007; “Former Marine Who Sued for Millions Gets $91,000,” Debbi Farr Baker, San Diego Union-Tribune, December 11, 2007; “Training lawsuit returns to court,” Gidget Fuentes, Marine Corps Times, November 30, 2007
page 253: according to an employee . . . Interview with Kim Zirpolo
page 254: “misguided and wasteful spending” . . . “Safety at Any Price: Assessing the Impact of Homeland Security Spending in U.S. Cities,” Senator Tom Coburn, December 2012
page 254: HALO Corporation and the organizer of the summit . . . “Marines, police prep for mock zombie invasion,” Julie Watson, Associated Press, October 27, 2012
page 254: “It’s embarrassing, really” . . . Interviews with Kim Zirpolo and Bill Anderson
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page 268: keep squatters from commandeering the ruin . . . Interview with El Negro
page 271: entirety of the new $70-million-per-mile US Border . . . “Study: Price for border fence up to $49 billion,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 8, 2007. The $70-million-per-mile estimate is a simple dividing of the Congressional Research Service’s estimate of $49 billion by the proposed length of the fence, 700 miles. But this cost still does not include the price of acquiring land or labor if contractors are used, and is thus a low-ball estimate.
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page 283: the most efficient device . . . Bicycling Science, David Gordon Wilson, 2004
page 283: that Susan B. Anthony called . . . Sports in American Life: A History, Richard O. Davies, 2012
page 283: solid rubber tires were an important gift . . . Ibid.
page 284: Orville and Wilbur Wright . . . It’s All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels, Robert Penn, 2010; Bicycle: The History, David V. Herlihy, 2004
page 284: another bike shop owner and mechanic . . . Ibid.
page 284: Today’s 54-million-member-strong . . . Ibid.
page 286: America’s largest export to China . . . “Scrap Really Is Our Top Export to China,” Scott Jacobs, University of Michigan, January 3, 2013; http://www.gltaac.org/scrap-really-is-our-top-export-to-china
page 286: inherited a bicycle co-op . . . Interview with Ken Gomez, Bikes del Pueblo
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page 301: At eighteen, El Negro migrated . . . Interview with El Negro
page 302: stumbled upon a construction site . . . “New Park Turns Attention From a Forbidding Border Fence to a Welcoming Ocean,” Ann Jarmusch, San Diego Union-Tribune, August 21, 2005
page 305: jumped 25 percent over the previous year . . . “In Come the Waves,” The Economist, June 16, 2005
page 305: in Tijuana, it was hottest at Playas . . . “Background to the Office of the Inspector General Investigation,” Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Justice Department, 1998
page 306: Incidents of broken ankles and legs . . . Interview with Border Patrol agent, name withheld
page 306: down the barrel of a thirty-year sentence . . . Consulate General of the United States, http://tijuana.usconsulate.gov/tijuana/warning.html
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page 321: he’d been described as “cherubic” . . .” Caitlin Rother, “Modest Mogul,” San Diego Union-Tribune, October 8, 2006
page 322: Congressman Brian Bilbray . . . “The Drone Makers and Their Friends in Washington,” Jill Replogle, Fronteras Desk, July 5, 2012; “Government Issues Waiver for Fencing Along Border,” Randal C. Archibold, New York Times, April 2, 2008; “Mr. President, Build This Wall,” Rob Davis, Voice of San Diego, January 8, 2007; “Time for Border Security?” Robert Costa, National Review, April 28, 2010
page 322: real meat eaters of the military . . . Interview with Kim Zirpolo
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page 331: when Negro reached out to this acquaintance . . . Interview with El Negro
page 332: Negro made a point of catching Watman . . . Interview with Dan Watman
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page 348: Most of them hailed from Oceanside, California’s . . . Interview with Ron Nua, Eric Amavisca, and Aaron Garrison
page 350: Their per diem . . . Ibid.
page 353: described the training and hunt for bin Laden . . . “No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden,” Mark Owen aka Matt Bissonnette, Kevin Maurer, 2012
page 353: TerraServer satellite images . . . Cryptome.org, https://cryptome.org/2012-info/obl-raid-mockup/obl-raid-mockup.htm
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page 358: Accurate migration numbers . . . Bureau of Justice Statistics, http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fleo08.pdf
page 358: security plan that would stop 90 percent . . . This demand is nearly as old as the debate on illegal immigration itself, and thus has its own highs and lows, but roared back to the forefront in 2013. “Congress Aims to Stop 90 Percent of Illegal Border Crossing,” Barbara Corbellini Duarte, SHFwire, May 16, 2013
page 358: At $4,500 per migrant . . . El Negro’s interviews
page 359: One curious instance . . . Interview with Dan Watman
page 363: The price per migrant was $12,000 . . . Federal trial of former Border Patrol agents Fidel and Raul Villareal in San Diego, August 2012
page 364: Even at a time when hundreds of agents . . . “Border Agency Report Reveals Internal Struggles With Corruption,” Andrew Becker, Center for Investigative Reporting, January 29, 2013; “Border Security: Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen CBP Efforts to Mitigate Risk of Employee Corruption and Misconduct,” United States Government Accountability Office, December 2012, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/551713-gao-13-59.html; “Crossing the Line: Corruption at the Border,” Center for Investigative Reporting, http://bordercorruption.apps.cironline.org
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page 376: highest tide of the year . . . Interview with Chris Peregrin
page 377: illustrate, for me, certain central equations . . . Border Games: Policing the U.S.–Mexico Divide, 2nd Edition, Peter Andreas, 2009. Andreas is one of our foremost border experts, and Border Games helped me understand what I was discovering on the ground.
page 377: Smuggler’s Gulch with 1.7 million yards of dirt . . . “U.S. Smooths Away an Illegal Border Crossing Wrinkle,” Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times, January 4, 2009
page 377: plan to replace the entire string . . . “Border Agents Relying On Outdated Surveillance Equipment,” Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times, October 19, 2012; “Homeland Security Delays Plan to Place Sensors on U.S.–Mexico Border,” Robert Beckhusen, Wired, February 11, 2013
page 378: Social scientists, internal affairs investigators, and attorneys general . . . “Corruption in Law Enforcement: A Paradigm of Occupational Stress and Deviancy,” Francis L. McCafferty, MD, Margaret A. McCafferty, RN, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1998
page 378: when CBP fired James Tomsheck . . . “Former Border Protection Insider Alleges Corruption, Distortion in Agency,” Carrie Johnson, Morning Edition, NPR News, August 28, 2014
page 378: The number of Border Patrol agents was doubled under the Bush Administration . . . “Border Patrol has lots of agents . . . in wrong places,” Associated Press, June 29, 2014
page 378: The heavily debated border-reform bill . . . H.R.399 Secure Our Borders First Act, https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/399
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KIMBALL TAYLOR is a long-time contributor to Surfer Magazine and the author of two books about the sport: Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures and Drive Fast and Take Chances. Taylor holds a BA in journalism and an MFA in creative writing and is an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
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