Join us for a reading and talk with Sarah Towle, author of “Crossing The Line: Finding America in the Borderlands.” Sarah will be joined in converstion with Camilo Perez-Bustillo, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild-SF Bay Area chapter.

It was family separation and “kids in cages” that drove Sarah Towle to the US southern border. On discovering the many-headed Hydra that is the U.S. immigration system—and the heroic determination of those caught under its knee—she could never look away again. A timely exposé, Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands charts her journey from outrage to activism to abolition as she exposes, layer by "broken" layer, the global deterrence to detention to deportation complex that is failing everyone—save the profiteers and demagogues who benefit from it.

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Sarah is an educator, researcher, and award-winning children’s author. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands is her debut full-length book. To learn more about both author and title as well as book an event, visit sarahtowle.com. 

In addition to overseeing the NLG-SF Bay Area chapter, Camilo is the lead author of Human Rights, Hegemony and Utopia in Latin America: Poverty, Forced Migration and Resistance in Mexico and Colombia (Brill 2016/Haymarket Books 2017). 

Sarah and Camilo are also both members of the leadership team of Witness at the Border.