Markham follows their repeated misfortune and inspiring resilience, setback after setback. The brothers have staggered northward, fleeing a murderous gang south of the border. Markham shows us the plight our heightened border vigilance has inflicted on Ernesto and Raúl Flores, relentlessly likable teen twin lads from El Salvador. Lauren Markham’s book “The Far Away Brothers” draws the camera away from the brutalizers and focuses it instead on young immigrants crossing to the United States. The nationwide clampdown on undocumented workers dashes hope and instills anxiety in millions of undocumented refugees, splits families and encourages violence by law enforcers. Our president pardons the anti-immigrant sheriff notorious for brutalizing detained immigrants and locking up American citizens with Hispanic names.
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