Dan-el Padilla Peralta described in these two first chapters of Undocumented his first years in the United States, after he left the Dominican Republic with his family at age four. Dan-el’s parents decided to leave their original country initially because the mother had pregnancy problem. In the first months in the USA the family faced an undocumented immigrant reality, the benefits to help the family was restricted just not much money monthly for food. Since early in his life Dan-el had received compliments about his intelligence from his parents. It was a great incentive that motivated a determined child, who loved to read and demonstrated his natural intelligence. Because the father had a better education in his country, he didn’t want
