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Over the Line

By Rachael Maddux, Illustration by John Ritter

Border Patrol’s Obscure, Omnipresent 100-Mile-Zone

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Issue: Fall 2017 / Volume 93/4

Published: October 1, 2017

Updated: November 2, 2017

Rachael Maddux

Rachael Maddux’s work has appeared in the Oxford American, the Paris Review Daily, the Believer, Guernica, and elsewhere. She is at work on a memoir about growing up mortal at the turn of the twenty-first century.

John Ritter

John Ritter is a Pennsylvania-based illustrator whose work appears regularly in the New Yorker, GQ, Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, and the Atlantic. His awards include recognition from American Illustration, Communication Arts, and the New York Society of Illustrators.

Over the Line

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