[00:08.62]I got my discharge from fort irwin
[00:12.55]Took a place on the san diego county line
[00:16.93]Felt funny bein a civilian again
[00:21.98]Itd be some time
[00:25.17]My wife had died a year ago
[00:28.66]I was still tryin to find my way back whole
[00:32.73]Went to work for the ins on the line
[00:37.48]With the california border patrol
[00:42.94]Bobby ramirez was a ten year veteran
[00:48.50]We became friends
[00:51.56]His family was from
[00:53.00]Guanajuato
[00:55.50]So the job it was different for him
[00:59.25]He said they risk death in the deserts and mountains
[01:03.18]Pay all they got to the smugglers rings
[01:07.18]We send em home and they come right back again
[01:11.56]Carl hunger is a powerful thing.
[01:18.00]Well I was good at doin what I was to
[01:21.75]Ld kept my uniform pressed and clean
[01:25.68]At night I chased their shadows
[01:29.69]Thru the arroyos and ravines
[01:34.32]Drug runners farmers with their families
[01:37.75]Young women with little children by their sides
[01:41.82]Come night wed wait out in the canyons
[01:45.88]And try to keep em from crossin the line
[01:52.88]Well the first time that I saw her
[01:56.76]She was in the holdin pen
[02:00.69]Our eyes met and she looked away
[02:04.44]Then she looked back again
[02:09.00]Her hair was black as coal
[02:12.37]Her eyes reminded me of what Id lost
[02:17.13]She had a young child cryin in her arms
[02:20.81]I asked senora is there anything I can do?
[02:27.18]Theres a bar in tijuana
[02:29.74]Where me and bobby alongsidedrink
[02:31.15]The same people wed sent back the day before
[02:35.23]She said her name was louisa
[02:39.23]She was from sonora and had just come north
[02:43.60]We danced and I held her in my arms
[02:47.48]And I knew what I would do
[02:51.16]She said she had some family in madera county
[02:54.72]If she her child and younger brother could just get thru
[03:01.34]At night they come across the levee
[03:05.59]In the searchlights dusty glow
[03:09.71]Wed rush em in our broncos
[03:13.16]Force em back down into the river below
[03:18.10]She climbed into my truck
[03:21.84]She leaned toward me and we kissed
[03:25.91]As we drove her brothers shirt slipped open
[03:29.47]And I saw the tape across his chest
[03:35.97]We were just about on the highway
[03:39.23]When bobbys jeep come up in the dust on my right
[03:44.60]I pulled over and let my engine run
[03:48.60]And stepped out into his lights
[03:52.97]I felt myself movin
[03:55.35]My gun restin neath my hand
[04:00.90]We stood there starin at each other
[04:04.89]As off thru the arroyo she ran
[04:14.77]Bobby ramirez he never said nothin
[04:18.95]6 months later I left the line
[04:23.27]I drifted to the central valley
[04:26.70]And took what work I could find
[04:31.46]At night I searched the local bars
[04:35.65]And the migrant towns
[04:39.77]Lookin for my louisa
[04:42.53]With the black hair fallin down