"Caminito Nocturno and Border Guard Academy

A group of middle-class Mexican high school students are on holiday in the Eco Parc Alberto near Ixmiquilpan, Mexico. Here they are given the “Migrant Experience” of an illegal crossing to the US. Former coyotes and human smugglers chase them in small groups through the hills and cactus fields. Actors pretend to be Border Patrol Agents.
A class of new recruits for the Border Patrol Academy are bussed from El Paso, TX airport to the Academy in Artesia, NM. There they are handed over to a group of “drill sergeants” or EOD (Entry on Duty) who scream and...