New Outreach to Blacks as Border Patrol Grows - NYTimes.com
New Outreach to Blacks as Border Patrol Grows
Neemah A. Esmaeilpour for The New York Times
Michael E. Douglas of the Border Patrol with Margaret Taylor, a mentor at a school in Memphis.
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: June 23, 2008
MEMPHIS — Nearly 1,500 miles from his post at the Mexican border, Cyril V. Atherton, a Border Patrol agent, embarked on one of his trickiest missions.
He was here recruiting young blacks to an agency few had ever heard of, trying to entice them to the hot, arid Southwest, where few blacks live, for a job that requires learning Spanish proficient enough to know if their lives are in danger while arresting as many as 100 people at a time.
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