Children In Enrique's Journey

Dan Coats believe that illegal children who immigrated unaccompanied should be deported due to the increasing numbers and how it promotes the dangerous journeys the children take to get to the United States. Coats believes the focus should be placed on the children’s start of their journey and deterring them from coming. The focus should not be “once they arrive at the border” (p. 186).

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

According to President Obama (2014), “If we are serious about economic growth, it is time to heed the call of business leaders, labor leaders, faith leaders, and law enforcement- and fix our broken immigration system. Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have acted. I know that members of both parties in the House want to do the same” (President Obama, 2014). The United States of American has long been the safe haven for those who seek to escape poverty, hunger, torture, and oppression in their home countries. According to the film, The Other Side of Immigration (2009), in 1970, the United States housed 750,000 immigrants and as of 2009, there are

    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.

Did you know that people in other countries have jobs that can not even sustain life? This is a very detrimental problem for the country and the family within that country. Sadly, the people within the country come to a point of recognition that they are going to have to change their circumstances in life. So they have to make a difficult decision leave their family to be able to give their children a better life by sending money back to the home country or take their oldest child out of school to start selling things on the streets. If the parent decides to leave the home country, then she will start a process of immigration to another prosperous country like the United States America without looking back to change her

Migrant children over the years have have made up and continue to make up a large portion of the influxes of people to this country. In spite of this and the and unique problems of immigrant children, immigration law and procedure is as absent of a child-centered structure as our history is. History and law pay little attention to the immigrant child’s voice and future. An unique exception of this is that many unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S. can gain permanent residency through a Special Immigrant Juvenile visa. This is the only child-centered form of immigration relief in existence in our country. Created in 1990, SIJ status allows petitioners who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned to obtain permanent residence. This status is achieved

Fort Morgan is just like any other small community in the United States. We have little town gatherings like Bobstock, have the whole gym filled with parents and fans for every sport, and country fairs. But, a little bit unlike other small towns, we are extremely diverse and could use something bigger to help, develop, and benefit our community as a whole. Something that could help us succeed like that could be the One City/One Book project which is a project designed for one whole city to read the same summer reading book. There are many ways that this project could ultimately help us out such as the themes that some of the book, like Enrique’s Journey could help our community that's separated by many different types of groups come together

The economic stress is also experienced by the children, where they began to pick up more responsibility in the household which can interfere with their school activities. Family relationships also become strained with the deportation of a parent. Derby (2012) also found that “the threat of deportability affected them profoundly”, causing the children stress and worry. This was applicable to U.S citizens as well as undocumented children. This caused children to worry about what to share about their private lives with the fear of people finding out about their parents undocumented status. This also caused conflicts with the child’s self of identity given that some stated to be “proud that either they or their parents were from Mexico, [but] few felt proud that they or their parents were immigrants”(Derby, 2012). It was interesting that parents believed their children didn’t understand legality, which the interviews with children “suggested that young children are aware that there are social differences based on legal status at very young ages even if this was difficult for them to articulate” (Derby,

Imagine yourself being a child of an undocumented immigrant, how would you feel if you watch the Television every day, and all you see is people been deported to their countries of origin because of their illegal status? Immigration has become one of the hottest topics that everyone is talking about, to specify, undocumented immigrants has suddenly become the target towards improving the nation’s economy. However, the damage that are resulting as we impound the fear of deportation on these undocumented immigrants are been neglected. Over 11 million undocumented immigrants resides in the US, formed families and have U.S born children (Suro and Suarez-Orozco). Today, among 15 children, there is one U.S born citizen with an undocumented parent (Suro and Suarez-Orozco). These children are nurtured by illegal parents who goes through emotional distress everyday due to the difficulties they face as they watch politicians calling out on

Before reading Enrique’s Journey I only knew 3 things about those who immigrated to the US. One, the majority were Mexican families. Two, they only migrate to the US, because they are poor and there are more job opportunities with better pay. Three, they got to the US by being smuggled in a van over the Border. All these things listed are true to an extent, but on a much deeper level. Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique 's Journey and journalist for LA times, has opened my eyes with Enrique 's Journey. Enrique is a young Honduran boy making his seventh attempt to America to reconnect with his mother after 11 years. Many unaccompanied children go on the same quest to America as Enrique to escape gang violence or to find a job to support their families. On this journey children ride on top of train cars, encounter gangs and corrupt officers, witnessed many acts of violence and death, and do their best to blend in and not get caught by officers who will deport them back from where they came. I learned immigration is frowned upon in the US and many agree with presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “build a wall” campaign to block out anyone coming in from Central America. I believe the majority of those who agree with his campaign only believe the stereotypes about immigrants. If those who supported Mr.Trump 's campaign knew the true struggles of immigrants lives and what sacrifices they made and the serious danger they put themselves in to get to America I strongly believe everyone

Sonia Nazario’s book Enrique’s Journey incredibly reveals and reflects the brutal reality on the topic of Central American Immigration. Through the perspective of Enrique, a young boy searching for his mother, the book unravels the “account of an epic journey,” and through the journey, “presents the positive and negative effects of immigration, illuminating the problem complexity.” Along his journey, Enrique encountered both of beasts and gifts, received both mercy and hatred. Similarly complex is impact of immigration. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, there were more than 700,000 illegal immigrants from Central America into United States each year, comparing to 1,000,000 spots the government legally grants. Such a terrifying number has caused panic and chaos, socially and economically, but also consists of some unnegligible substance. Only by deducting the rate of immigration will people be able to reach a comprehensive well-off society.

With deportation of undocumented immigrants being one of the top topics in the Republican Party nominee’s (Donald Trump) campaign, we all cannot but debate the effects of such action in relation to the 6.5 million undocumented Mexican immigrants who cover over half (59%) of the total 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. With such population, it is logical to say that these are thousands of Mexican families with children born both in Mexico in the U.S. According to Bredy (2012) “Today, more than three quarters of the children of immigrants are U.S. citizens and one-third live in mixed-status families”, therefore, it is evident that about one-third of American born Mexican children are prone to suffer from parental deportation. In

The “American dream”, a national ethos of the United States, is sought after by many struggling immigrants who go through much risk in order to make a better living in the U.S. A long debated issue over illegal immigration into the U.S revolves around Mexican/Latino immigrants. With Honduras having little to no medical care and harsh living environments, many of its citizens seek to find jobs to support their families. Enrique’s Journey, bye Sonia Nazario sheds a new light on immigration in the U.S with the account of one particular Honduran boy who is trying to immigrate to the U.S. From the view of privileged individuals, these immigrants may be seen as a problem, with a simple solution; do not let them into the U.S. However, this problem has a much more complex lining.

Between 1st October, 2013 and 31 July, 2014, the United States Customs and Border Protection reported that likely 63 thousand unaccompanied children, most of them coming from the Central America region, crossed into the United States through the southern border. The figure is a representation of double the total number of children who immigrated to the US in similar period on the previous years, 2012 (Greenhill). The increasing number of children immigrants into the US has revitalized a rancorous nationwide debate regarding the US policies on immigration. President Obama’s critics have been proposing for major immigration reforms to curb the increasing number of children immigrants into the US (Lightfoot). They argue that the situation has stretched the legal and social services receiving the migrants which in turn incurs costs on the tax payers’ money. The issue of influx of children into the US comes from Central America comes at a time when the authorities at the southern body record a historic lowest overall detentions of undocumented immigrants.