We filmed the last of them as they picked up a higher trail around our position. I was very concerned that they would circle back behind us. I doubt they knew that there were only three of us. They continued on North.

As we came out of the bush the next morning we discovered that same night, not far from us, an infiltrator been shot and badly beaten. Left in the bush to die, I have always wondered if he had been one of the men we had filmed.

The last words of advice that Border Patrol had given us before we entered the Buenos Aires Animal Preserve was: “If you see guys with uniforms and automatic weapons, run the fuck away, because they aren’t ours.”

Those agents were dead right.

As I drove back to California, I got a phone call from the acting Border Patrol Tucson Sector chief asking me if I could give them a copy of the footage that we shot. He thought that it might save lives of new agents if they used it in the academy. I said absolutely. In fact we had just dropped a DVD of raw footage off at the BP sector station.

http://bigpeace.com/cburgard/2010/07/23/the-border-a-dirty-war-part-3/