Analysis Of Which Way Home

Between 2001 and 2004 the estimated number of central American migrants that reported detained and deported, doubled to more than two thousand a year. Most of the migrants that leave their home in central America and Mexico have a set goal which is to find their mothers. “An estimated 1.7 million children live illegally in the United States, most from Mexico and Central America” (Nazario, Pg. 241). A study featured in the book from a Harvard University showed that “85 percent of all immigrant children who eventually end up in the United States spent at least some time separated from a

Enrique challenges,which the undocumented people don’t have same human right.When Enrique was with his four friends in the motel the police came and arrested them all. He says, “At least 5100 of those children ended up in foster care.”(210)This quote shows in the United states on undocumented parent is poor to rest the children. If they are have same human right then they can with the children together. In addition when many migrant who first set out the train with Enrique have been caught and deported. Nazario write, “As Enrique slowly recovers from his beating.”(87) This quote shows that Enrique has been robbed on the train by gangs, and has been physically harmed. Since Enrique is undocumented, the police don’t help him because they will want to send Enrique back to Honduras. Through Enrique,Nazario

The United States and Mexican border number of migrating, unaccompanied Honduran minors has grown more than 10,500 from the start of January through the month of July of year 2017. Immigration of children continues to have a major effect and an affect both on the United States and Mexico. This is only now coming to the surface because people have different ways to access information and know about news that has not happened in your state or city. The six chapter book “Enrique’s Journey” written by author Sonia Nazario in the year 2001 was only a glimpse of child immigration and how each country was dealing with the influx of unaccompanied minors. Furthermore, the book “Enrique’s Journey” focuses on the experience of being a child with an immigrating

Each year, thousands of Central American immigrants embark on a dangerous journey from Mexico to the United States. Many of these migrants include young children searching for their mothers who abandoned them. In Enrique’s Journey, former Los Angeles Times reporter, Sonia Nazario, recounts the compelling story of Enrique, a young Honduran boy desperate to reunite with his mother. Thanks to her thorough reporting, Nazario gives readers a vivid and detailed account of the hardships faced by these migrant children.

    At first glance it seems the author of “Enrique’s Journey”, Sonia Nazario, has a key purpose to highlight what Enrique has gone through on his search for his mother.  A broader analysis shows Nazario’s main purpose is to show the hardships such as beatings and rape that migrants, mainly children, face on their journey to find their mothers in the United States.  This is a hot topic for newly inducted president Donald Trump.  Article “DHS proposes separating illegal immigrant mothers, children caught sneaking across border” by Stephen Dinan highlights a plan proposed by John Kelly.  The purpose of the book and article have a neutral feeling towards immigration.  They compare in ways and differ in ways at the same time.

And as time passes, the situation isn’t getting any better. Still, dysfunctional factors, such as divorce and abandonment are pushing mothers to look for a way to find a better life for their children. The solution, many people think, is the United States. The number of illegal immigrants is increasing exponentially and though the demand for cheap labor is always high, there is now discontent from legal employees that are losing their jobs to cheap labor. This situation has created more pressure towards the government to fix the immigration issue. However, as aforementioned, it’s not a simple matter of sending people back to their country. The kernel lies in countries, like Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico and others that can’t sustain their workers with proper wages and living conditions. Due to the pressures to tighten immigration, the journey only becomes harder. Does it discourage people from engaging in such dangerous trip to the north? Unlikely. From the beginning, the people that go through these journeys hardly care about HOW to get there; they only care about getting there. Hence, immigrants suffer more and more and the real issue isn’t being diminished in the

So what is immigration? The definition stands as the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. However, outside of a narrow definition we can see that it is actually so much more. It is the action of someone uprooting everything they have ever known in hopes of finding something better. Many times as we have seen through Enrique’s Journey means that children and entire families are left behind in hopes that one day they will once again be reunited (Nazario). Though many hope to see their families once again, their hopes slowly turn into dreams. Between 2010 and 2012 nearly 205,00 parents of U.S. citizen born children were deported in a staggering 26 months (Lincroft). Given that this is a statistic based upon families that are already in the US it leaves us to wonder how many families are torn

Studies show, within 3 months, 80,000 illegals were deported from just Texas and many more in five other states; 700,000 returned to Mexico voluntarily, 488,000 in two other states (Nagle). A child born in the country from foreign parents are citizens at birth and it should not be taken away from them. “Former representative Nathan Deal of Georgia had a better idea, and he introduced a bill proposing that being born in the U.S. only confers citizenship if one child’s parents is a U.S. citizen” (Nagle). When parents are deported their children don’t have a choice whether they go with their parent or stay, the government chooses it for them. Some parents don’t know they can request return upon deportation or their children could be replaced with their relatives or take them with them to their home (Valbrun). A mother sent a request to visit her child but got no response and her child was taken care by strangers and the mother did not accept this idea. Obama stated that they are focusing on deporting immigrants that have committed crimes. “It’s clearly un-American to take kids away from loving families” (Valbrun). Social workers say children are better off living with middle class Americans than their own “poor” parents who want to try to make a living in a new place. An immigrant parent’s worst fear is to be deported and abandon their child

The separation of families due to their legal status is questioned by FFF primarily because it affects the children involved. Thus, Figure 1 uses Pathos because it tries to appeal to people’s emotions by portraying a little girl facing down because she is being taken by the police without even having committed any crime. Children represent innocence, thus, this characteristic is touching to people and might motivate them to act against the current immigration policies. On the other hand, this figure also uses Kairos because America has been experiencing changes in its immigration policies in the last couple of years. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center, deportation of immigrants reached record high in 2013 (Gonzalez-Barrera and Krogstad);

“The result is family separation—often involving U.S. citizen members. Such destruction to families also results from the expansion of the so-called Secure Communities program under the Obama administration’s watch”(Hing 982). The Secure Communities program did not seem like it would cause any issues but it has. The Secure Communities has “called for expeditious removal of the thousands of unaccompanied children arriving at our border who are fleeing violence” (Hing 982). The children are trying to come to a better place but since there is no family members and they are just children they do not have a way to check their status and have no other choice but to be removed from the

A common misconception is that legalizing illegal immigrants would just result in “criminals” running around the streets causing disturbances. Who is ignored is the benefit of a very specific population of Americans, the sons and daughters of illegal immigrants. American children are harmed every time one or both of their parents is deported as a result of the lack of an immigration reform. In the article, “Children of Illegal Immigrants Struggle When Parents Are Deported” Valbrun states that “the government deported more than 46,000 parents of children with U.S. citizenship in the first half of 2011, according to the ARC report.” In these conditions, jailed parents cannot fight for their children’s custody and at times lose it to the government who then puts the children out for adoption or in foster care when they already have loving parents. Properly legalizing immigrants would improve the lives of many American children and improve the American social aspects with more

There are about 1.5 million children and youth that are brought over undocumented. In the book Lives in Limbo there is a saying which goes “ ni de aqui ni de alla” meaning that they don’t feel like they belong to either side. They know they don’t belong here because everyone is telling them they don’t belong but then they don’t belong from where they came from because they grew up here and that's all they know. Many of these

In the past these were fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and grandparents. These families came in packs. Now they come as packs of children. Some are led here wit Coyotes. Coyotes are traffickers that bring immigrants wishing to come to the United States for a fee. The article, “No Country for lostkids” by P. J. Tobia tells the story of Nodwin, a boy from Honduras whose parents paid for a Coyote to bring him to them in Virginia. Nodwin states that, “ The big people force the children to take their clothes off and also make them sell bad things,and if they dont do it, they rape them or they kill them”. This is the reason Nodwin had to

Immigration has played an important role throughout American history. What fundamentally sets America apart from other nations is the foundation that it was created by immigrants seeking a better life for themselves and their children (Camarota & Zeigler, 2016). During times of economic growth, laborers have been imported, and deported during recessions (Flores, 2016). An average of 1.1 million immigrants relocate to the United States annually (Storesletten, 2000). US Customs and Border Control officials, have witnessed a significant increase in the number of “unaccompanied alien minors” from Latin America, anticipating 75,000 minors (if not more) from 2016 to 2017 (Rush, 2016). The average age for “unaccompanied alien minors” is 11 years

Mexican Cartels are luring youngsters as young as 11 to work in their smuggling operations, attracting them with what appears to be "easy money" for doing simple tasks. Cartels recruit children, who are less likely to be suspects than adults and are easily manipulated by small sums of money, and face less severe penalties than adults. Kids are asked to smuggle drugs, people and weapons through the border. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety says, “They are U.S. citizens who speak Spanish and blends perfectly in the other side of the border.”