Nearly 60,000 unaccompanied migrant children were apprehended along the U.S. Mexico border between October 2013 and September 2014. Is there anything more frustrating than wanting a happy life, but knowing that it will never happen without help along the way? How does wanting to sacrifice everything you have to reach a dead end sound? These are a few minor, yet inconvenient effects Enrique experienced in wanting to attain a substantial lifestyle with his mother. While others ambitions are chasing a dream, Mexican and Central American children are opened up to so much terror along the way, trying to reach the American dream. In Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario emphasizes how Immigrants from Central America and Mexico are being oppressed by
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In any event, Lourdes has not saved enough. Suggests “Do I want to have them with me so badly,” whether she is willing to lose her children for her satisfaction. Implies that, “The cheapest coyote, immigrant advocates say, charges say, charges $3,000 per child. Female coyotes want up to $6,000. A top smuggler will bring a child by commercial flight up to $10,000.” Lourdes believes if she saves enough money for one the other will think she loves him or her …show more content…
The rest travel alone. They are cold, hungry, and hopeless. They are hunted like animals by corrupt police, bandits, and gang members.” Local gangs are constantly robbing migrants, especially as they walk around the migrant checkpoint. Many men dressed in Mexican police uniforms wander around in search for lost, helpless migrants as they hope to find goods, sex, and money. The mayor’s driver is not surprised, “The judicial police, he says, routinely stop trains to rob and beat migrants.” Eighty percent of migrants will be assaulted or robbed. Sixty percent of migrant women will be raped.
Between April and September of 2010, Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission concluded 214 kidnappings involving around 11,300 people let alone just reported kidnappings. Danger comes from every direction. Many have made the trip before and know first hand how brutal it can be. Honduras has the world’s highest murder rate, El Salvador the fourth, Guatemala the fifth. Much of the violence within the countries are perpetrated by gangs, the Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, the most vicious gangs in the Americas. Gangs are forcibly recruiting young men to join or someone in their family gets
In any event, Lourdes has not saved enough. Suggests “Do I want to have them with me so badly,” whether she is willing to lose her children for her satisfaction. Implies that, “The cheapest coyote, immigrant advocates say, charges say, charges $3,000 per child. Female coyotes want up to $6,000. A top smuggler will bring a child by commercial flight up to $10,000.” Lourdes believes if she saves enough money for one the other will think she loves him or her …show more content…
The rest travel alone. They are cold, hungry, and hopeless. They are hunted like animals by corrupt police, bandits, and gang members.” Local gangs are constantly robbing migrants, especially as they walk around the migrant checkpoint. Many men dressed in Mexican police uniforms wander around in search for lost, helpless migrants as they hope to find goods, sex, and money. The mayor’s driver is not surprised, “The judicial police, he says, routinely stop trains to rob and beat migrants.” Eighty percent of migrants will be assaulted or robbed. Sixty percent of migrant women will be raped.
Between April and September of 2010, Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission concluded 214 kidnappings involving around 11,300 people let alone just reported kidnappings. Danger comes from every direction. Many have made the trip before and know first hand how brutal it can be. Honduras has the world’s highest murder rate, El Salvador the fourth, Guatemala the fifth. Much of the violence within the countries are perpetrated by gangs, the Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, the most vicious gangs in the Americas. Gangs are forcibly recruiting young men to join or someone in their family gets