She witnessed firsthand the influx of unaccompanied minors filling the halls of California schools (25 percent of students in California are English-language learners) and sought to understand what was bringing these young men and women across the border in droves. She’s covered immigration issues for publications as far ranging as Vice and The New Yorker, but it was in her capacity as a school administrator in Oakland that she first met the Flores brothers. It’s a refrain that will occur over and over in this new book by investigative journalist Lauren Markham. As his mom succinctly explains: “He went to the North.” There’s a scene at the end of the first chapter of The Far Away Brothers where the title characters - identical twins from a small town in El Salvador, at the time in their early teens - walk up to the doorstep of a good friend.
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