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Mira is able to achieve the American dream and eventually bring his wife and two children in to the USA. However almost 30 years later his brother Joseph had a very different journey. He is imprisoned in a deportation camp when trying to escape Haiti as its political situation deteriorates and almost loses his life to violent gangs who believed he had allowed the riot police to shoot from the roof of his building (kakutani). The two may have different journeys and experiences but they both share a family history of distrust in the United States of America due to almost 20 year occupation that occurred in the early 1900’s. While the journey of one of the brothers was easier than the other they both faced their