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Jeff Peer

Jeff Peer is a writer and teacher, an editor at Turtle Point Press, and an adjunct professor at the City University of New York. His criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in World Literature Today, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, Hyperallergic, and other journals. icon

Necessary Documents, Undocumented Americans

By Jeff Peer

It doesn’t matter if they are innocent parents or 9/11 heroes: undocumented Americans have been villainized and brutalized by the United States.

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