If where you live, there were gangs openly working with no police or government stopping them, wouldn’t you flee, too? Many children come to the United States, unaccompanied, to find their parents, get an education, and flee from violence. Enrique’s Journey is about a young boy’s journey to the United States from Honduras to find his mother. Additionally, on this dangerous journey to get across the border, he rides on top of trains and hitchhikes his way to the border. Nazario’s argument about illegal immigration involving children is the United States should help Central American countries get rid of gangs and gang violence. In the novel, Enrique's Journey, Nazario introduces the topics of gangs and gang violence, humanitarian aid to Central American countries, and unaccompanied minors crossing the United States border. Furthermore, Nazario states her opinion on illegal immigration, in Enrique’s Journey, explaining her view of giving humanitarian aid to countries, and other sources that support …show more content…
should provide humanitarian aid to the countries in which we have an influx of illegal immigrants. In 9th Circuit: Detained Immigrant Children Entitled to Court Hearing, it states, “...[The gang] violence is a legacy of the civil wars of the 1980s, subsequent migrations to the United States and the deportation of gang members back to their home countries in the 1990s” (Hendricks). This reveals that the problem is from the civil wars in the 1980s and it still continues today. Also, this shows that the United States had a part in creating the problem by deporting the gang members back to their countries instead of jailing them in the United States. Therefore, Nazario is correct in saying that the United States should provide humanitarian aid because they were part of creating the problem of the gangs roaming free. To summarize, many sources support Nazario’s findings and views of illegal
When it comes to analyzing the “banana massacre” scene in chapter 15, I found three narrative techniques the author used to describe this scene. Therefore, one can notice that this part of the book is the climax. As a result, one infers what the author is trying to say about Latin American history and politics.
Fort Morgan is a small town community with a small population. This means that it easy for community members to bond and know each other. One way that the people could bond is through books. More specifically, the One City One Book program. The One City One Book program is a way for the community to get together through discussions of a piece of literacy. The book that would be a good option to use is Enrique’s Journey because it is a nonfiction piece of work that has many lessons to teach people, and it is all through a story of a young boy’s journey. This program would benefit Fort Morgan with Enrique’s Journey because it enlightens the people of the community about the hardships other people have that are not in America, it is an educational
For immigrants, reuniting with parents who left them is a huge problem in the U.S. Children who reunite with their parents after many years have a lot of problems with the parents. The parents and children tend to argue, the children have buried anger, and both have an idealized concept of each other. According to Los Angeles’s Newcomer School, a school for newly arrived immigrants which is referenced in Enrique’s Journey, a bit more than half of want to talk to the counselor about their problems. The main problem Murillo, the school’s counselor, says is mostly family problems. Murillo says that many parent-child meetings are all very similar and identical to each other. Some of the similarities are that idealized notions of each other disappear, children felt bitter before going to the U.S., and that many children have buried rage. Mothers say that the separations between them and child was worth it because of the money earned and the advantages in America. However, many children said that they would rather have less money and food if it meant their mothers would stay with them.
In the book Tunnel Kids written by Lawrence Taylor and Maeve Hickey, tells the stories of children in their attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the United States. These children are referred to as Tunnel Kids because they seek shelter within a storm tunnel. The tunnel connects the cities of Nogales, Arizona USA and Nogales, Sonora Mexico. Not only do these children find shelter in this tunnel but they find children like themselves. Children who face struggles including hunger, pain, addiction, and loneliness. These children are not completely left to fight for their own defenses, they do have a haven, Mi Nueva Casa. A place looking to change the lives of these children and take them out of the tunnels. But this haven cannot support
By the end of the 2000s, while it seemed to many that there was no end in sight to the violence, behind the scenes senior gang leaders in El Salvador admitted to having grown tired of the gang warfare. Many of them, reflecting on the destruction the inter-gang violence had wrought on the communities in which their mothers, wives, children and grandchildren lived, felt compelled to look for a solution.... ... middle of paper ... ... Having grown increasingly frustrated with these rampant displays of impunity by gangs, the Salvadoran public pressured its government to prioritize public security above all else.
The author is using personal experience to convey a problem to his or her audience. The audience of this piece is quite broad. First and foremost, Mexican-Americans just like the author. People who can relate to what the author has to say, maybe someone who has experienced something similar. The author also seems to be seeking out an audience of white Americans who find themselves unaware of the problem at our borders. The author even offers up a warning to white America when she notes, “White people traveling with brown people, however, can expect to be stopped on suspicion they work with the sanctuary movement”(125). The purpose of this writing is to pull out a problem that is hidden within or society, and let people see it for what it is and isn’t.
Enrique decides to set out on a journey to reunite with his mother in the US. It takes eight attempts over four months to finally reach her. The first seven times he is robbed, beaten, and deported again and again, yet never gives up. Like most migrants, much of Enrique's journey is atop a freight train, but there are many dangers between Honduras and the US. If migrants aren’t killed by the trains themselves, they must worry about the gangsters, bandits, and robbers beating, robbing, raping, and even killing migrants. Just as dangerous are the corrupt police called la migra that do whatever they want to immigrants before deporting them. On the bright side Enrique meets a variety of people on his journey, many attempting the same voyage he is. They share their stories and advice about where to go and where to avoid.
In Enrique’s Journey, Nazario states her opinion on illegal immigration explaining that the solution is to provide humanitarian aid to those countries overrun by gangs. Nazario believes that the way to help the children and adults coming over illegally is to provide aid to Central American countries. In her Ted Talk, she states, “...the U.S. is helping bring a new strategy that cuts violence in Central America” (TEDxTalks). This explains that she does not support open borders, but the strategy the U.S. to cut down violence. Cutting down the violence in these countries will keep the children and adults who are running away from the violence in their homelands. Their lives won’t be threatened every day, and they won’t feel the need to flee to
In the article “How to secure the border. Spoiler alert: A wall won't do it,” Sonia Nazario makes a case for violence-prevention programs that will help stem the flow of immigrants. Nazario begins by refuting each of the ways that the government has tried to deal with the problem of illegal immigrants. She then says that the best way to solve this dilemma is to deal with the root of the problem, which is not the people themselves, but what is forcing them out of their homes and into ours. The dangers of their home country are forcing them into the perilous journey of trying to cross the border. Next, Nazario used a city in Honduras as an example. By providing outreach programs, protecting the city’s citizens, and thoroughly investigating crime,
The book Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, The United States and Canada examines the reasons why millions of people from Central America migrated to these three countries, and defines each of the country’s unique responses to large numbers of refugees. The author, María Cristina García intricately describes the experiences of citizens from El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala during their country’s civil war eras. She explains that because most of these citizens’ land (home) was taken from them to be used in governmental industries, there only other options were to migrate northward or be murdered. The migrants who had to opportunity to migrate, were eventually either put in harsh government camps or living illegally in neighboring countries. News about the Central American refugee crisis attracted the attention of many non-governmental and grassroots organizations who expressed great concern for theses migrants living conditions. The general violence and lack of human rights these migrants endured was seen as unacceptable to many, as a result the Refugee Advocacy Movement
Ruben Martinez was fascinated with the tragedy of three brothers who were killed when the truck carrying them and 23 other undocumented migrants across the Mexico – United States border turned over in a high-speed chase with the U.S. Border Patrol. “Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail” is a story about crossing and life in the United States.
Specifically, one of those was the insecurity felt by the children as they traveled through Mexico. At one point in the film, the boys talked about how they were robbed and abused by Mexican authorities. One of them spoke briefly about how it took several Mexican officials to take his watch off his arm, because he refused to hand it over. This issue leads back to one that was described earlier in this paper, the influence organized crime has on the Mexican government. The major issue that was cited in this documentary however, is the growing number of unaccompanied children traveling to the United States. This issue has two sides to it, the social side and the political side. The first side of this issue starts at the home country of each of these children. Their government is not able or not willing to help them, and as a result they live in poverty and without access the basic human needs; water, food, shelter. This leads the children to want better for themselves and ultimately to take the decision to travel to the U.S. On the political side, the unaccompanied children are causing Mexico and the United States to spend more money on Immigration. This because they have to create more detention centers for minors, they have to house and feed them until they are deported to their country of origin. Throughout the film these issues are put into the perspective of the children. The reason the directors did this, was to show the challenges the children face as they made their journey. The reason they used that perspective is because it is a unique one. It is not every day that you hear about a 12 year old who traveled across Mexico and into the United States
I believe that I have grown throughout the year. Mainly in my classes, such as English, Cultural Geography, Physical Education, Biology, Algebra 1 and Learning Lab. In my first class, English 9, I feel like I have grown in my reading level and my way of being able to understand what I am reading. For example, in the beginning of the year we read a book titled "Enrique's Journey" which I can easily talk about for hours. The book spoke of a young Honduran boy who attempts to get to his mother in the United States by riding 'The beast', which is what they call a very dangerous train that travels through the border between mexico and the U.S. Also we newly finished another book, called "Raisin in the Sun", it spoke of a story of an African American family during 1959. The characters that are in the book and that lived together are Walter, Ruth, Travis, Mama and Beneatha.They all are related in different ways,for example, Mama is the mother of Walter and Beneatha, and Walter is the father of Travis and married to Ruth. The main plot in this book is money and how it gets between the family and corrupts them.
The narrative Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario, tells the true story of a young boy’s dangerous path from Mexico to the United States, in hopes of reuniting with his mother. Along Enrique’s trek he sacrifices his safety, well-being, and even the possibility of his life to be with his mother once again. Lourdes, Enrique’s mother, gives up the ultimate sacrifice of missing her children grow up, causing their love and affection they once held for their dear mother to dwindle, all of which so she can provide money and security for her family. Sacrifice is a key theme in this narrative because without the difficult decisions made and the loss the characters so tragically endured, then they would not have been able to reap the reward of a reunited,
Children of illegal immigrants came for a better life and good education.Children get away from the insecurity and poverty, gangs like “maras” in central America, they are making feel fear in all people, most of the children enter the gang and then they want to leave but if they leave they will be murdered. mr. President Obama said that“the desperation and the violence that exists in some of these Central American countries,". El Salvador is the only country where fear of crime remained steady, with roughly 42 percent of respondents