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In light of the recent signing of Arizona’s draconian immigration law, SB1070, we are excited to welcome Norma A. Price, author of Crossing With the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail. In the last ten years over 5000 migrants have died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. They were headed to find jobs, to join families, to make better lives for themselves in a new land. Too often that land has taken their lives. The book collects stories heard from migrants about these treacherous treks—firsthand accounts told to volunteers for the Samaritans, a humanitarian group that seeks to prevent such unnecessary deaths by providing these travelers with medical aid, water, and food. Other books have dealt with border crossing; this is the first to share stories of immigrant suffering at its worst told by migrants encountered on desert trails.