Summary Of Enrique's Journey

"I need to find my mom" say's one out of the thousand child immigrants that cross the border into America each year. Border Patrol agents could arrest as many as 90,000 children trying to illegally cross the Mexican border alone in the year 2014 more than three times the number of children apprehended in 2013, according to a draft internal Homeland Security memorandum reviewed by The Associated Press. These children are escaping the dangers and poverty in their homelands and running for safety not only to the United States, but also to neighboring nations including Panama, Belize, and Costa Rica. The Novel Enrique's journey illustrate the struggles of living in central america, and the dangerous of the journey to crossing the border in to America for freedom, and wealth. Due

As for the children most go in search looking for there mother, who has left them behind because of the dangers of the journey. For example In the article Enriques journey it states "Enriques Mother leaves his home tome in honduras and never returns, and that decides Enrique's fate. As a teenager–indeed, still a child—he will set out for the U.S. on his own to search for her". What this means is that He will become one of an estimated 48,000 children who enter the United States from Central