Between 2014 and 2016, according to Amnesty International, at least 83 Central Americans were murdered after being deported from the United States. The number of those killed after being deported to Mexico is likely much higher. Even when migrants from Mexico and Central America are not killed after being deported, many suffer the traumas of robbery, extortion, kidnapping, family separation, as well as relapses into unemployment, poverty, and hunger.

Deportation as Death Warrant blends together historical analysis, incisive reportage, and gripping narrative storytelling. Such as the story of Jos Marvin Mart nez who, fearing for his own life, fled his home, and attempted crossed the US-Mexico border into Texas. He found work in Houston until he was apprehended by the Border Patrol and subsequently deported back to Honduras. Four months later he was dead. The same gang members he had previously fled killed him in a drive-by shooting. Washington makes a powerful argument for a radical change in US immigration policy, that in the age of Trump's rhetoric of nation crisis, has become a debate on the future of the nation.

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Format: Hardcover
Author: Washington, John
ISBN: 9781788734721
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 8.60 x 1.10
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Year: 2020

The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the Us-Mexican Border and Beyond

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