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Cantu feels both the good and bad coming from Juarez.  Cantu is able to fall in love with the nature that surrounds Juarez, and the land that makes Cantu feel safe and at home. He learns of stories from his friend Morales' family and the beauty that can be found in Juarez. He remembers when the man helped his mom the day they visited Juarez and can remember the kindness that it can demonstrate. On the other hand Cantu sees the horrors and the crime in Juarez. How it has evolved into an unsafe place and is now dangerous. Cantu is torn between the beauty of Juarez and the violence the argument is that people see the violence of immigration but no one sees the kindness and the stories that these people have. That they are human and not to be treated like something dangerous to society. The argument exposes the corrupt treatment of immigrants and stereotypes of the immigrants. 

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Cantú feels a strong connection towards Juarez. He loved the people and culture but also doesn’t like the crime and the horrible things that happen.

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Cantu feels drawn to Juarez. He loves his culture but the violence and the crime makes him hate it. Working as a border patrol he has seen so many things that make him question so many other things. Stereotypes emerge in this book.

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Cantu feels a draw to Juarez, he feels that it is part of the history of his culture. He has read and in cases heard from people the stories of Juarez, or experienced the kindness of the people before the violence started, he sees the history and change in his land. It feels like home with or without the border because he knows that that is his origin. Yet he is repulsed by the changes on his homeland, it has been ridden with violence and constant murder. Violence has overpowered the home and kindness of Juarez which installs fear in everyone, no one cares to stay focused on kindness when fear is overpowering them all. this contradicts from what he has been told and experienced about the  of the land.

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Cantu is intrigued by Juarez but also repulsed. He writes about how Manuel and Beto's families used to spend weekends there and cross the border all the time. He is drawn to the city because it connects to his Mexican roots and his family. He is also repulsed by it because of the immense violence there. The argument relates to the current state of the border where people are trying to escape the horrors from their homes, and he wants to go back to where he is from and experience his roots. He is arguing that the media is only focusing on Juarez's real horrors but not the beauty of the region and the culture. This is creating a stigma that is subconsciously keeping even him away.

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Cantu is drawn to Juarez because he feels as if it is a part of his history, not only this but despite the "homicide, massacres, shootings, turf wars, mass graves, corruption, decay and erosion" he says "people I had seen extend, without hesitation, the most basic kindness towards one another" This indicates that he sees the good side of people helping each other through the suffering and violence that is ever present in Juarez. He is repulsed from Juarez because he sees a terrible excess of violence and corruption. Acts of femicide began in the 1990's and Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez from the Mexico City Journal says in The Femicide Machine “The victims were abducted from the streets of ciudad Juarez and taken by force into safe houses where they were raped, tortured, and murdered at stag parties or orgies. The victims bodies were dumped into the desert like garbage, tossed onto the streets, on corners and vacant lots in the city's urban and sub-urban zones, and the outskirts of the city.” This is just one reason why Cantu is so repulsed by the city Juarez.

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Cantu doesnt see Juarez as the place many journalist write it to be he understands the stereotype yet he feels that its true due to the fact he hasnt visited it. He has great memorys from it similiar to his friend yet neither of them have gone sense the violence increased, is it because they are scared or because of the uniform they wear that hispanics stereotype similiar how we steroetype them.

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Cantu’s relationship with Juarez is very radical. On one hand he loves the culture, the people, and the place of Juarez but on the other hand he is so repulsed by the disgusting crime and violence. Most of the cops are narcos, or paid by the narcos so no law is enforced heavily.

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Cantu has a conflicting feeling within himself towards Juarez. while he eats the food that is shared with him, Cantu resonates with his roots. While also having his education and training, nagging at him knowing of the violence and trauma going on in Jaures.

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Cantu is drawn to Juarez because he sees more than just it's ugly reputation. He of course, remembers his visit to Juarez with his mother where the locals showed him and his mother kindness by helping her out of the road. Additionally, Manuel and Beto both tell him cheerful and happier stories of Juarez that don't reflect the reputation the city has. This entices Cantu because the city seems so multi-faceted, a place where great horrors and great kindnesses occur simultaneously. This ties into immigration because the media often portrays migrants the same way they do the city of Juarez, focusing only on the violent drug smugglers and coyotes. However, as Cantu learns through working in the border patrol there is another side to the immigrants just as there is clearly another side of Juarez that goes unnoticed.

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Cantu expresses contradictory feelings towards Juarez. He relates to Juarez because of his own personal experiences in his family life growing up however, Cantu has mixed feelings about growing closer to Juarez because of the known violence that surrounds it. Cantu has insider knowledge about the border and the border patrol not only through schooling but, working in person, experiencing the horrors in real life. However, he is remembering the stories and how it used to be which, is causing him to have mixed emotions.

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Cantu expresses that he has many memories of family and commu ity about the border. Several families used to cross the border all the time. Now they are scared to even go by the border because of the  border patrol and all of these immigrants. As it gets later in time the border has become just a line of two places, to a dangerous crossing with so much violence. Catu now works at this dangerous place that has ruined their childhoods of just "walking across the river" and taking a family vacation to the mountains and lakes. Cantu began to be a border patrol to answer questions but now he has more questions than answers. He feels as if he's ruined the past.

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In one anecdote while Cantu is visiting with manuel and his family manuells mom shares fond memories she has of juarez from when manuel was a child before it was filled with violence. she remembers a time when her family was able to go back and forth across the border, and enjoy the benefits Juarez had to offer. This anecdote much like others shared throughout the book show that the cultural connection Cantu feels to Juarez is greater than any national border. although the connection Cantu feels to Juarez he can not move past the extreme violence that has enveloped the city in recent years. The conflict Cantu feels over Juarez can be viewed as a greater representation of the battle of good and bad within oneself. With a large focus being placed on the violent side of Juarez Cantu begins to wonder if the bad within him outweighs the good.

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In Juarez Cantu has always felt drawn to all the people living in Juarez. Cantu soon learns how people treat each other in this town that he visits. Although Cantu knows all these stereotypes and is aware of what goes on in Juarez

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Cantu has a unique relationship with Juarez. He has learned about the border from an academic stand point, but know standing on the borer he feels at home. On one hand he feels connected to his Mexican roots, and he identifies with the people crossing the border. He has had several incredible experiences at the border, where he meets real people that he can relate to, such as the brothers with the beef jerky. One argument is that the people who cross the border are beautiful, full of culture, and he is drawn to that.

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Cantu seems drawn towards Juarez because he and his mom have good memories from Juarez like how the man helped him and his mom in the middle of the street in the pothole. He is also so repulsed by Juarez because he knows about the crime and the dangers that thrive in Juarez such as femicides. One argument shown is that he is being internally torn apart in two directions by family and horror.

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Cantu feels both drawn to and repulesd by Juarez. From his personal experience in Juarez he has discovered that the people there show kindness to others and it was a place worth experincing. Juarez seemed entirely ordinary and that pulled him in. However, Juarez is widely known for crimes and terrorizing.  Cantu is trying to argue that although the news and other informants portray Juarez as a violent and unwelcoming place, all the crimes don't define it completely.

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Cantù feels both drawn to Juarez and disconnect from it. He describes several families, included Manuel and Beto’s, who used to cross the border all the time and have lovely experiences on both sides, but now don’t “go down there anymore.” He sees in the news the way the world seeing Juarez in an almost voyeristic grotesque fascination, especially with the “fetishization,” as Molly Molloy put it, of the murdered and raped women. However, he also can remember his mother twisting her ankle when they were visiting, and thinking about the kindess and welcome he experienced then. The argument beginning to emerge is that it’s so much more complicated than everyone seems to believe. Even Cantù himself believed that once he saw the border, he would come up with all kinds of answers. However, he now feels that he has more questions than when he showed up. To add to this, he unwillingly feels that he’s chosen a side, which he had every intention not to do, and drawn a line in the sand- for he is no longer able to or willing to cross over the border.

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Cantu's own experiences with the kindness of the people and the beautiful culture across the border in Juarez heavily contradict with media perception and what his border patrol job has allowed him to see. Cantu is polarized by these two sides, as he comes to terms with his existence between them. Cantu enters the border patrol job with the purpose of trying experience true nature of the border, but even he is feeling the subconcious media preassure to see Juarez in a fearful light.

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The city of Juarez draws Cantu because he notices how the people there still have humility in a place of violence and danger. He recalls when his mother had fallen, people who didn't even know them rushed to their side to help. Cantu's emerging argument is that these border cities and migrants are more than they are perceived.They are not just criminals or people that should be feared. He has inner conflict of his position as a border patrol agent is conflicting because it's not as simple as "putting the bad guys" away.

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Cantu's view of Juarez is both positive and negative. He positively connects Juarez to his positive memories with his family, and anecdotes of Beto's and Manual's family as well describing content memories of Juarez. At the same time Cantu is taken aback from his love of Juarez due to large amount of crime and seemngly increasing femicide. The arising argument is that the media negatively reflects the people who consist of immigrants, in which causing people to oppose immigrants and support closely regulated border patrol. The argument uncovers the political corruption and overtake of the governmental eye.

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Cantu's relationship with Juarez is a connection of both feeling positive and negative. Juarez's memories that he shares with Cantu positively impacts

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Cantu has a both bad and good connection with Juarez. He enjoys the people but sees horrible deaths of people getting killed by cartels. At the start of the book the people in Mexico help his mom. Bodies that you are unable to recognized.Manuel mother shares that they use to go to Juarez all the time spend time at the lake but later that changes when they stopped going.Cantu feels stuck in the middle between this border from family to his job which is part of who he is. Having his mother being from Mexico, while being a border patrol agent.Seeing how they Chase immigrants to there deaths. He sees than not everyone in Mexico side of the border is bad there are good people but because of cartels and violence people don't see the bigger picture they focus on the violence.

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Cantu feels drawn to Juarez because he enjoys the people. As seen on page 9 there are many average citizens in Juarez that take care of each other. He also sees the horrible crime in Juarez, making him torn between it. He mentions his cousins on the other side of the border and feels torn between his family and job. Cantu's spirit is torn between his family and blood, and his job and where he grew up. On page 7 a woman states that "[t]he problem doesn't come from the streets." This means that there are many innocent people in Mexico, or any where. Cantu states the problem is complex and that him traveling to the border only gave him more questions. The two arguments are that this problem is very tough to handle and that the government also has some fault, and that Cantu's spirit is being torn in two because of it.