Newsfront / ‘Who I Am Now’ by Darrell Ankarlo
Crawling Into America
Life Story
NAME: Darrell Ankarlo
AGE: 49
BEST KNOWN FOR: A
conservative talk-radio host,
Ankarlo wanted to know
fi rst-hand what life was like for
illegals sneaking into America.
So he walked across the border
into Mexico, and then back
into America. Along the way,
he stared down gun barrels,
was caught in the middle
of a drug-lord showdown,
interviewed “coyotes” who
lead illegals across the border,
and risked life and limb in
the Arizona desert. Ankarlo
returned home with a new
NOT THERE
perspective on illegal
Ankarlo garnered
immigration, as refl ected in
a healthy respect
his book Another Man’s
for the U.S.
Sombrero: A Conservative
Border Patrol —
Broadcaster’s Undercover Journey
because Mexico
Across the Mexican Border.
doesn’t have one.
RESIDENCE: Phoenix.
PREVIOUSLY HELD VIEW: Our border security is a
joke, and our politicians are in on it.
‘‘
It took me less than six seconds
to cross into America. I thought it was
HOW EXPERIENCE ALTERED HIS VIEW:
Seeing people who are willing to risk their lives to steal a a fl uke and tried it three other times.
piece of the American Dream made me angrier than I have
ever been at elected leaders in the U.S. and Mexico who play
Our Border Patrol has the deck stacked
them as pawns. It also gave me a whole new respect for our
against them.
Border Patrol — because Mexico’s is nonexistent.
’’
HOW ILLEGAL CROSSINGS CHANGED HIM:
I always knew the human element to this story, but seeing HEARTBREAKING IMAGE: The Rape Tree. A
what the illegal immigrant goes through, especially in our majority of women who cross illegally are raped in our
deserts, opened my eyes to a necessary compassion. deserts, and their bras and panties are hung like trophies
from trees. And, I’m the one who is called a “hater” and O
MOST DANGEROUS PART OF JOURNEY: We “racist” because I fi ght this issue? This is a human-rights
were in El Sasabe, Mexico, scouting for my planned illegal matter, and all those protesting to let illegals live here are
trip over the border, and I didn’t have my papers. Mexican guilty by association in these maddening sexual assaults.
ARRELL ANKARL
troops surrounded our Jeep and aimed their AK-47s at our
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heads. Thank God for my fast-talking translator and my FIGHTING A LOSING BATTLE: It took me less TES
Marine Corps son! On a separate occasion, I stepped into the than six seconds to cross into America. I thought it was a
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middle of a drug lord-vs.-coyote [immigrant smuggler] fi ght. fl uke and tried it three other times. Our Border Patrol
We should have been killed both times! has the deck stacked against them. ANKARL
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