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One early morning in July, Lalo Medina waded into the Mexican side of the Rio Grande under one of the international bridges that connect the city of Piedras Negras with Eagle Pass, Texas. He and his family had set out a fishing net the night before and returned to retrieve it before Texas troopers launched their airboats. Tangled in the mesh were a dozen catfish. Medina’s father, Juan, held a thirty-pounder by the gills. He cleaned the catfish on the muddy banks, and his soaking white T-shirt, wrapped tightly around his prodigious belly, turned scarlet from the blood. As they looked across the river at Eagle Pass, an airboat raced past them. Standing atop a shipping container, other troopers surveyed the river. The morning sun glinted…

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