From the Borderlands

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In her new podcast, Sarah Towle, author of Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, pushes back against the media disinformation machine by offering a narrative that puts people at the center of the immigration discussion.Join Sarah as she provides commentary on current events and speaks to immigration advocates and experts as well as people caught under the system's cruel knee, all while sharing excerpts from Crossing the Line that spotlight the extraordinary efforts of ordinary people working to tear down the walls that divide us. Sarah implores us to join their "grassroots war of welcome." There is no time for despair, she declares. And all hands are needed urgently on deck. She calls us to collective action, now, to create a bulwark against the worst impulses of nativist governments pedaling in propaganda and lies that vilify, in the UN's terms, the world's most vulnerable people. Showcasing the folks still flying the tattered flag of values espoused in the Univers