![]() ![]() ![]() To reach the U.S., teens like Ernesto and Raúl become easy targets for drug cartels. ![]() government officially terms them “unaccompanied alien children” - making the trip north is treacherous. came from those three countries.įor unaccompanied minors - the U.S. In 2013, 93 percent of unaccompanied minor immigrants in the U.S. ![]() In “The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life” (Crown, $27, 298 pages), she recounts the experiences, illuminating the fears and palpable dangers that young people in Central America’s Northern Triangle - El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala - encounter every day. Markham, who has been a program coordinator at the Oakland public school since 2011, spent the next few years helping Ernesto and Raúl (not their real names: Markham used pseudonyms to protect them) as they navigated the system from crisis to safety. And they were terrified that they were going to be deported.” “They’d missed a court date because they couldn’t find the courthouse. “They were totally panicked,” says Markham. The 17-year old identical-twin boys had fled their native El Salvador in fear for their lives. Lauren Markham, a program coordinator at Oakland International High School, found her encounter with twin teenage immigrant brothers so compelling that she wrote a book about their experiences coming here from El Salvador. BEN GUCCIARDI/PHOTO In 2014, Lauren Markham was in her office at Oakland International High School when Ernesto and Raúl Flores walked in, desperate for help. ![]()
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