American Dirt — problematic portrait of Mexican migrants on the run
In Jeanine Cummins’s propulsive but uneven novel, a mother and son head north to flee a cartel
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Appeals court: US can't send migrant families to danger, but can expel them without hearing - Roll Call
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Opinion The Controversy Over 'American Dirt' - The New York Times
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Inside a smuggling operation moving migrants across the US-Mexico border
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Scenes from an American migration crisis
Mexican officials clear migrant camp as surge of people reach border
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American Dirt' Book Controversy, Explained
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American Dirt' Book Controversy, Explained
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American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins review – panic and pathos on the run from the cartel, Fiction
Mexican officials clear migrant camp as surge of people reach border
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The ugly history behind those border agents chasing Haitian migrants on horseback.
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