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Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era

✍ Scribed by Ramos, Jorge

Book ID
109880052
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2018
Tongue
en-US
Weight
307 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780525563792

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✦ Synopsis

Named one of the "World's 50 Greatest Leaders" in 2016 by Fortune magazine, and largely considered the most influential journalist in the Latino community, Jorge Ramos writes a "manifesto" on the Latino immigrant experience in the United States under the presidency of Donald Trump.
What does it mean to be a Latino immigrant, or just an immigrant, in the Trump era? When Ramos confronted candidate Donald Trump about his controversial remarks on Mexicans, the need for a wall and deportations during a 2015 press conference in Iowa, a member of Trump's security team threw him out of the room. A seasoned journalist, Ramos took the episode "personally" and uses it to explore his own biography as an immigrant, with the US's long immigration history as a backdrop, and drawing from the latest data and immigration statistics to respond to Trump's claims. Ramos takes readers along on his journey through America's history and his own immigration story in an effort to...

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