Enrique's Journey Thesis

Would a life in America really make things better for an immigrant? In Sonia Nazario’s Enrique’s Journey, this question correlates with one of the many topics of the book. One of the topics is examining the approaches of immigration, as well as creating the social awareness of it. Nazario pulls it off well in the prologue by presenting a typical sob story of the many immigrant mothers of South America, which is one of the top five countries where its people immigrate to the United States. She also presents the various risks Central Americans have to go through such as the rides on the trains, how one can lose their limbs or life on them. This will make her goal of social awareness possible, and convince one to make a change. The reality and

She has talked to some Mexicans, who don’t have a prejudice against Central Americans, and their opinion on this matter. One of therm had said, “It’s wrong for our government to send people back to Central America. If we don’t want to be stopped from going into the United States, how can we stop Central Americans in our country?” (Nazario, 103) The flaw in this logic is that no matter how much a country wants recognition by the public, it is a illegal to immigrate it through an unverified form. The immigrants are arriving to America by sneaking through the darkest sewers, and any gap hole they can find on the border. They can achieve this by the lack of authority and enforcement of immigration.
Although Nazario has many flaws throughout the book, she makes an undying point with the problem of the governments in Central America. One of the Central Americans interviewed by Nazario had said, ““What would it take to keep people from leaving? There would have to be jobs. Jobs that pay okay. That’s all” (Nazario, 260) What would it take for leaders to be a little less selfish and blinded by power? That’s what Nazario is trying to send, and uses the right rhetorical device of pathos and ethos; appealing to anger, pity, and having the facts of people who know some of the

Three million immigrants per year is a possible disruption of the economy, especially if there’s children involved. The Central governments know this, and take advantage of it due to no president or even a politic ever taking a stand against it. The lack of enforcement, strict laws, and many other things have caused the illegal aliens to be symbolized in the picture as a “tsunami.” This cartoon defies on what Nazario is saying. How come the United States must have their economy destroyed but restore Central America’s? The act of selflessness in politics and economic problems are not welcomed, and should not be