My name is Margarita. I left Guatemala in 1989, six years after my brother disappeared. The 1980s were a bad time in my country because of the civil war and political terror campaign. Our government’s armed forces were kidnapping and torturing…
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Note: This migrant mother’s name was changed to honor her request to remain anonymous. November 26, 2019 — When Maxine first came to America, she left her two sons in Jamaica with their father. She asked family members to help…
October 5, 2019 — Two new books shed light and provide insight into the fraught debate on immigration and global migration. The timing could not be more apt, as the polarizing politics of our time continues to exacerbate the migration…