From El Salvador to Oakland

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 11, 2018

Lauren Markham, journalist and the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life (Broadway Books, 2017), tells the story of identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores who fled El Salvador for Oakland, California, and talks about what motivates migration and what happens next.

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