Unsympathetic System Of Migration In Enrique's Journey By Sonia Nazario

A mother sees her children off to school at the school bus stop; however, they would never see each other again. The mother’s trip to the immigration check-in has caused a dramatic change in both her’s and her family’s lives. A story such as this, one where a parent is taken away and deported, is far too common in the U.S.A. An unsympathetic system of deportation has torn many families apart and has thrown away all the effort that immigrants have put into coming to America. Throughout the novel Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario, a young boy named Enrique struggles to immigrate to the U.S. and faces many obstacles that infringe on his right to immigrate. The right to immigrate is threatened both in the U.S. and around the world by corrupt dysfunctional

For instance, Helen O’ Neill, author of “Parents Deported, What happens to U.S.-born kids?”, explains who also falls victim to unreasonable deportation here: “It 's a question thousands of other families are wrestling with as a record number of deportations means record numbers of American children being left without a parent”. Hence, when parents are deported, children often face an uncertain future of foster care, home relocation, and confusion. In addition to the above point, O’ Neill points out the extent to how many parents and families are affected in the following fact: “Nearly 45,000 such parents were removed in the first six months of this year, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)”. According to the statistic, the deportation of parents is not an uncommon occurrence; tens of thousands of families are affected each year. Think of how many children are also uprooted from their homes as a result of

Again O’ Neil brings to light the struggles faced by immigrants in another article: “Young Illegal Immigrants Coming Out of the Shadows”. In her article, she recognizes the voices of those who critique the way the governments handles immigrants in this excerpt: “Even critics who are sympathetic to their [immigrants] cause say the federal government has failed to secure the U.S. borders and that it 's too costly to provide schooling, hospital care and other public services to non-citizens”. In spite that providing for non-citizens can be difficult to accommodate, that does not mean they should be completely turned away from government aid. O’ Neill states the following about the children of immigrants who manage to complete an education: “But only a federal law can give undocumented youth green cards, so even those who manage to graduate find themselves stuck: qualified lawyers, engineers and teachers who can only work menial jobs, in the shadows, like their undocumented parents”. After trying to make a life for themselves through education, undocumented youth still struggle to achieve what could come easily to a citizen even though they put the same, if not more effort, into getting where they are