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Let me start off by saying what you will hear on this show today
is real. Our listeners know we rarely, if ever do a fiction
story. I have to tell you, from the outside looking in you have
to think that this has to be a fictional story? This can’t be
real. Basically we do not want it to be real. If it is, we have
some serious problems in our government. Well, this will come as
no surprise, we do. Let’s mix illegal immigrants into the
picture. Not a new topic for our show. Not a new topic for
America either. Today we are going to take you to the Texas Rio
Grande Valley. It is
one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States.
Good jobs are scarce and the competition for them is fierce. The
INS detention camp pays the best wages for a hundred miles. So
people take these jobs as guards. The guards follow orders and
keep quiet about what they see happen here. Our guest today was
one of those guards. What makes him different is he did not keep
silent about what was going on. He lost his job, came back and
lost it again. Blacklisted and receiving death threats. I will
let him tell you all about that. The book we will talk about
today is called, “Between The Fences.” He
and his wife started a ranch ministry in Southern Texas in 1981,
for local Hispanic children.
After receiving the
numerous death threats, they were eventually forced to leave the
Rio Grande Valley. They have since moved to Michigan. Please
welcome to Your Life Matters Tony Hefner.
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