I warily skirted around the border crossing checkpoint, the clock on the dash displayed that I still had two and a half hours before sunrise. The headlights found the only relief in a tightly woven pattern of thick steel wire fence towering over the desert floor stretching as far as I could make out in either direction. I anticipated the blue and red flashing lights of a border patrol agent as I nervously tapped the steering wheel. The truck crept through the gate and made w