Sonia Nazario's The Risks Of Child Immigration

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The Risks of Child Immigration
Introduction:
Why are more and more children crossing the border? Most children migrate to the United States because their parents have left them behind in their mother countires with their family members such as their grandmothers. Others however migrate because their parents want them to have a brighter future that they could never have in their mother countries. Some children flee because the violence in their mother countries has recently risen and their lives are in danger. Every day, many children die trying to reach the United States. It is very tragic to see so many children risk their lives tryning to cross the border that separates them from the United States. Those that don’t die generally end up injured …show more content…

All through the book, Nazario uses modes of persuasion such as ethos, pathos, and logos to prove her point. Like Enrique, about “75 percent” of the children that immigrate to the United States from Central America and Mexico “are looking for their mothers” (Nazario 5). Nazario uses statistics through logos to show us how many of the children grow up without their mother and look for them once they get older. As a journalist, Sonia Nazario can not “get involved personally with the people [she writes] about” because her “credibilitiy depends on keeping it straight with the readers” (Nazario 261). Nazario uses ethos in order to show people that she is a credibile source. By explaing her motives for interfering, Nazario reveals how she tried to help Enrique and his family the way she would like others to help the immigrants that are anguished. Transito Encarnaion Martines Hernandez “lost both feet” and Leti Isabela Mejia Yanes as “a single mother” of “three children” has “lost both legs” (Nazario 95). Nazario uses pathos to allow the reader to be able to feel sympathy for the immigrants and what they have gone through. Nazario was able to strongly prove her points with the help of modes of persuasion, however, her strongest points in the book were mostly those using pathos because they were able to impact the people more than the

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