The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond shop-books whose family’s search for safety

whose family’s search for safety shows how the United States—in concert with other Western nations—has gutted asylum protections for the world’s most vulnerable

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The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond shop-books whose family’s search for safetyThe Dispossessed by award winning Nation writer John Washington tells the story of a twenty four year old Salvadoran man, Arnovis, whose familys search for safety shows how the United Statesin concert with other Western nationshas gutted asylum protections for the worlds most vulnerable. Crisscrossing the border and Central America, John Washington traces one mans quest for asylum. Arnovis is separated from his daughter by US Border Patrol agents and