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…
Nazario’s views on solving the problem of illegal immigration. NAZARIO’S ARGUMENT 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” (Nazario Solving Illegal Immigration). This explains that she does not support open borders, but the strategy the U.S.A. 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 the United States. To conclude, Nazario gives her opinion on illegal immigration explaining the solution is to provide humanitarian aid to the Central American countries. Continually, Nazario uses the role of rhetoric, pathos, in her techniques to get her point across about illegal immigration. She speaks about the hardships the people in these countries have to face every day. In Enrique’s Journey, Nazario writes that many children and adults have to scavenge for food in the trash dump, they “reach up into the sliding ooze to pluck out bits of plastic, wood, and tin” and the occasional pieces of stale bread (Nazario 27). This provides an image in the reader's head about how hard their life is that they have to search through the dump for food. This supports her use of pathos because she appeals to the reader’s emotions telling about the horrible conditions they're living in that they are fleeing to gain a safer life. Furthermore, she uses pathos and logos to illustrate her opinion humanitarian aid and bring you to understand their living conditions that drive them to leave the country. She explains, “Honduras's Rivera Hernandez neighborhoods the most lethal place in the city of San Pedro Sula, which itself for four years running was dubbed “the murder capital of the world” (Nazario Solving Illegal Immigration). This illustrates a place where children and adult are afraid to live and will take the chance of coming to the United States illegally to escape from the violence. In this use of pathos, she uses the feelings of being scared every day to bring listeners and readers to understand her argument. This supports Nazario’s argument by giving the readers a fact, but also happening to human feelings of scared and sad by explaining that children and adults live in this horrible place. To conclude, through pathos Nazario supports her argument on illegal immigration. RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS Many other sources support Nazario’s views on solving the problem of illegal immigration and support her findings. First, she was correct in her finding on gangs and gang violence in Central America. In Honduras, Central America still lead the world in murder rates, it states, “Latin America continued to lead the world, with 31 percent of the world’s murders despite having approximately 9 percent of the world’s population” (Kane). This proves that Nazario’s finding was correct showing that the murder rates in Central or Latin American are higher than anywhere else in the world, but they account for about “9 percent of the world’s population”, which is about 630 million people. Additionally, these countries account for “31 percent of the world murders,” and gangs commit most of these murders. These people should be helped and not sent back to these places where they run a very high risk of getting murdered. In the end, Nazario is supported in saying that the places where the migrants come from are riddled with gangs and gang violence. Secondly, Nazario was correct in her findings stating that most of the unaccompanied minors crossing the United States border are from Central America. In an article about illegal immigrants who are children, it states, “...[There are] a wave of Central American children fleeing violence, as criminal gangs in El Salvador and neighboring countries have come to wield terrifying power with impunity, and weak governments struggle to respond.” (Hendricks 9th Circuit). This reveals that most of these children do come from Central American and are fleeing from gang violence. This suggests that these children are coming to the United States out of necessity and not because they want to come here to live. Furthermore, Nazario is correct in saying that most of the children coming in unaccompanied are from Central America. Meanwhile, the minors who come to the United States and get detained have to face many obstacles before either being allowed to stay, or face deportation. An article about children detained crossing the United States border, states, “One such teenager, Pablo Aguilar, spent 2½ years in immigration custody. In 2014 Aguilar fled a gang in El Salvador that had kidnapped, and probably killed, his brother. He came to the United States to seek asylum and reunite with his mother, who lives in Los Angeles. But despite finding his mother to be a fit parent, ORR would not release Pablo and would not explain why” (Hendricks Hundreds of Migrant). This reveals that the United States government jails minors who are caught crossing the border, and this can sometimes last for years as they await their court hearings. The fact that these children are jail needs to change because that is not good for their mental health, and also that is inhuman to jail a person for fleeing a country riddled with violence. Therefore, Nazario’s statement about the unaccompanied minors crossing the border being mostly from Central American countries was correct. Final, Nazario was right in her findings in saying that the United States.
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
immigration. CONCLUSION Finally, the topic of illegal immigration is very controversial and there are tons of information regarding topics within the subject of illegal immigration. Continually, many of the countries that illegal immigrants come from countries that controlled by gangs. Further, Nazario’s argument regarding illegal immigration involving children is the United States should provide Central America with help to get rid of gangs and gang violence. In Enrique's Journey, Nazario introduces many topics including gangs and gang violence, humanitarian aid for Central America, and unaccompanied minors crossing the United States border. Moreover, Nazario’s book, Enrique’s Journey, was very informative and exposes a different view on illegal immigration. After all of the research and consideration of this topic I did, I stand for providing humanitarian aid to Central American countries, which are controlled or overrun by gangs. In conclusion, illegal immigration should be solved by helping the Central American countries were these immigrants come from, and not deporting them to their homelands.
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.
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.
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
The push-and-pull factors in Enrique’s yearn for the U.S not only allows him to rediscover himself as an individual in a world of uncertainty, it also eliminates his constant fear of failing as a promising human being; in addition exhibits the undying hope of a desperate man found in hopeful migrants. In Sonia Nazario’s “Enrique’s Journey,” his mother’s trip streamed “emptiness” into the heart of a once comfortable child and left him to “struggle” to hold memories they shared. Enrique’s life after Lourdes’ departure triggered the traumatizing demise of his identity. He threw this broken identity away while facing many obstacles, nevertheless each endea...
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.
I have heard fascinating stories about vans and cars full of Mexicans being pulled over, taken to the border police and deported back to their residence as they attempt to cross the border. Some of them are lucky enough to make it through their journey while some lose their lives. Every year many people try to enter illegally in the United States to get success in their life, to get a better job and sometimes to get united with their families. There is no doubt that the journey of crossing the border is very dangerous and sometimes life threatening. It is understandable when adults are trying to risk their life in search of a better life but when minors take the same attempt and risk their life what are we supposed to do as parents or family? In the film Which Way Home director Rebecca Cammisa shows the journey that many unaccompanied minors attempt with the hope of migrating across the Mexican-U.S. border for a better life is actually a potentially fatal passage. “Each year, the Border Patrol apprehends 100,000 children try to enter the US” (Which Way Home). By showing different consequences of crossing border Cammisa tries to create awareness among parents and even in the children. Parents should not give permission to their children to cross the border and children who have no parents also should not try to cross it. Through her documentary, she tries to educate teenagers and their parents about the risks and dangers of crossing the border illegally. In the documentary Cammisa shows that there are people who know about the possible consequences, but still ignore it, and at the end they regret of taking such an attempt. Through her documentary Cammisa also warns them not to make such decisions because at the end they are not...
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,
Medina states, “Gang rule is absolute and young people are extremely vulnerable to forced recruitment into the gangs. Adolescents are continually intimidated and subjected to violence, pressurised into joining the gangs or working for them as drug pushers or in other roles” (Medina). This fear dynamic is used in order to promote corruption within the system of migration. The migrants that decide to escape are forced to encounter constant dangers while migrating. Medina states, “Fear of deportation is largely behind the failure to report crimes; in order to get their destination, most migrants will continue on their journey as soon as possible, leaving the experiences behind them, shrouded in silence” (Medina). This silence thrives on the system of corruption which implicates Mexico’s passivity to protect migrants from violence. Overall, this represents enduring the consequences the migrants face and the perseverance to
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.
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
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,
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
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
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
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.