"I Survived the Unsurvivable"
A Slight Change of Plans
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Javier Javier's Immigration Story
In his memoir, Javier writes from the perspective of his nine-year-old self. "I literally almost died during each of my attempts and I have guns pointed at me multiple times," he says. He was born in a small fishing village in El Salvador in 1990 in the middle of the Civil War. His dad fled that war in 1991 when he was still one years old; his mom left when he was five months old.
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