FILM RECOMMENDATION

This Frontline documentary, Trafficked in America, is “An investigation into how teenagers from Central America were smuggled into the U.S. by traffickers who promised them jobs and a better life — only to force them to live and work in virtual slavery to pay off their debt.” Produced by Daffodil Altan and Andrés Cediel, 2018, FRONTLINE PBS. Trailer

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BOOK RECOMMENDATION

American Dirt, a novel, tells the story of a mother and her 8 year old son who flee Mexico after a cartel murders her journalist husband and 15 other family members. 2020, Flatiron Books. Wherever books are sold.