Goldman-Arbegst: An Analysis Of Araceli

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In the novel, Araceli is presented as a character just is trying to help. She is saving the children from being taken away from their parents to foster care.
For example, one of the L.A Times reporter named Stephanie Goldman- Arbegast, expresses her compassion by stating “ The Mexican woman who’d been briefly jailed for ‘the crime’ of trying to save two children who’d been abandoned by their parents” (Tobar 296). Goldman-Arbegast explains how unfairly Araceli is treated and punished for helping those parentless children. Similar, in the research, the reporter named Arthur Brice complains about the injustice that, illegal immigrants face “Forty-seven percent [of the people] said they know someone who was treated unfairly by police” (Brice, “Poor

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