After leaving in 2012, he secured a Fulbright Scholarship and traveled to the Netherlands to study the status of asylum seekers. During these years, he became disillusioned with Border Patrol and the way it dehumanizes migrants. While working with the agency between 20, he spent two years in the field in Arizona and then moved into intelligence in Tucson and then El Paso, Texas. After studying the border at college, Cantú joined Border Patrol as a young graduate, hoping to gain a better understanding of the region and its politics. Cantú’s parents separated when he was young, and Cantú and his mother moved several times for her work as a park ranger before settling in Prescott, Arizona, where Cantú lived until he went to college in Washington, D.C. His grandfather on his mother’s side immigrated to the United States from Mexico as a child, and Cantú’s mother worked to instill a sense of his Mexican heritage in him. Francisco Cantú was born in Santa Rosa, California, in 1985.
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