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Quotes From Enrique's Journey

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“…No human being is illegal…” -Elie Wiesel. This quote is so accurate because no matter our race, we are all people who deserve to choose where we live without having to worry about being an illegal citizen. It is heartbreaking to see what immigrated families have to go through whether they are separated, mistreated, or being unable to be free to live their lives without the worry of being sent back. Like in the book “Enrique’s Journey” that is a true story, the main character Enrique had to face all the struggles of immigration in his country. According to the Pew Research Center, in 2013 438 immigrants were sent back to their country with over half of those immigrants being non-criminals! That is 240 families being separated with the immigrant …show more content…

According to the article “Parents deported, what happens to US-born kids?” it is said that President Obama promised that his administration would only remove criminals and not break up families even if the parents immigrated illegally and yet 45,000 parents were removed in the first six months according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Because of all this separation, at least 5,100 U.S. children in 22 states live in fosters care and a good amount of them are being put up for adoption against their parent’s will also according to the article “Parents deported, what happens to US-born kids?”. From all these separations, families are being destroyed. Children are confused when their parents go missing and their lives usually take a turn for the worst, spouses are depressed that they are now alone to raise a family, and the parent that was deported is in extreme agony of feeling so worthless that they cannot be with and help their family and loved ones. It does not matter how long the family has been separated, the suffering never …show more content…

Parts of the book “Enrique’s Journey” would be about Enrique getting caught and mistreated from the authorities of Central America also known as la migra. If he was caught they would beat him and ask for bribes or they would just steal from whatever little money he had. Not only Enrique had to face this, according to the article “In crisis, Greece rounds up immigrants” it is said that many police treating the immigrants they caught with racial profiling and police brutality that included arbitrary detention, beatings and degrading police treatment. Police in these areas would deny such behavior by saying that immigrants were being respected but sightings and videos say otherwise. No matter the age or the race of the immigrant, they should all be treated with the respect from the authorities for both are

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The book I am reading is Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario. I predict that the author will explore the human rights issue of Immigration Laws and the plight of illegal aliens in the United States. I believe that this issue will be important in the story because Enrique the main character in the story is very driven to find his mother who has gone herself illegally to the United States to earn money to provide an education for her children and to better the life of her family. I made this prediction because Lourdes leaves her children in Honduras as she goes to make money in the United States and her son Enrique is left saying “Donde esta mi mami?” “Where is my mom?”

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While reading Enrique’s Journey, written by Sonia Nazario, a lot of themes were brought out throughout the book that served different meaning in Enrique’s story. The theme that stood out to me, was his journey because Enrique traveled all the way from Honduras to find his mom, who stayed in the United States. There are times in the book when he falls victim to his own shortcomings: doing drugs, tantalizing his mother, mismanaging his finances. He is ready to take yet another journey, this time marked by responsibility instead of adolescent rebellion and resentment. However, Enrique's journey is not only physical, but also mental as he grows from a boy to a man.

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Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is about a little boy, Enrique, who lived in Honduras. His mother, Lourdes, moved to America to make money for her family because she wasn’t making enough in Honduras to put food on the table for her family. She had 2 kids, Enrique and Belky. After years of many promises broken and very brief conversations between each other, Enrique decided that he was going to try his hardest to make it to America to see his mother. Drugs were his way of rebellion because he was tired of moving in and out with all sorts of family members.

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Quotations Analysis “In spite of everything, Enrique has failed again - he will not reach the United States this time, either. He tells himself over and over that he’ll just have to try again. ”- page 60 Context sentence: Enrique has been trying to reach his mother in the states for quite some time now, He recently has been deported back to guatemala there he decides not to give up and he perseveres. Appeal to Emotion: Enrique has been through a lot of trials and tribulations in his journey to meet his mother.

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Enrique was eventually sworn in as Enrique II. Enrique's son Juan I and his grandson Enrique III inherited the crown. Enrique III was married to his cousin Catalina of Lancaster in alliance and gave birth to Juan II who inherited the crown at a young age after his father's death. Catalina and the child's uncle, Fernando de Aragón, took control until Juan II was old enough to be crowned. While the Laws of Catalina in 1412 against Jews were said to be harsh, her son would permit Álvaro de Luna to control and allow conversos to continue to hold high positions of power.

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Enrique’s Journey sheds light on the influx of single Latino mothers crossing the border in order to find work to support the family the left behind. Nazario seems to synthesize the effects of this kind of immigration when she says “separations almost always end badly” (Nazario xxv). What most commonly occurs is that once a child is abandoned they look to “find love and esteem elsewhere, by getting pregnant, marrying early, or joining gangs” (Nazario 191). As this type of resentment builds within the loved ones left behind, they begin to develop the viewpoint that reuniting with those who left them is the only way they could possibly get better. In Enrique’s case, he firmly believed “only his mother can help him” out of his drug issues and violent outbursts and to find his mother would be “deliverance itself” (Nazario 42,

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Humans rarely change their ways; they stay in their own worlds and always interact with the same types of people. Unfortunately, this habit often creates unseen barriers that divide and alienate human beings from one another. In Luis Alberto Urrea’s book The Devil’s Highway, Urrea provides a personal perspective to immigration by telling the story of 26 illegal immigrants, known as the Wellton 26, who are abandoned as they cross the Mexico-U.S. border. Through their story, Urrea proves there are invisible borders among people that create prejudice, such as language, ethnicity, and economic status. By reading The Devil’s Highway, it is clear that these barriers must be broken down to ensure harmony within society.

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Introduction Informative, contemplative, and different are three words to describe “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’” by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco from Rereading America. “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’” talks about unauthorized immigration. More specifically, this source talks about the other side of the issue of unauthorized immigrants; the human face of it all. “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’” depicts the monster from one of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s thesis in the article, “Monster Culture (7 Theses).” The monster seen in the source “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’” is the one that Cohen talks about in his fourth thesis, “The Monster Dwells at the Gates of Difference.”

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This journey begins in Honduras, a country in Central America, then continues into Mexico and finally in the United States where Enrique ends up living for the remaining of the story. The story definitely took place a couple decades ago when Enrique was younger. The setting of the story is important

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This country is made up of immigrants. No one should be ripped apart from their family for being an immigrant. As actress and author, Diane Guerrero wrote “Immigration Raids Are Ripping America Apart” published in 2016 in “Time Magazine” she tells us that it is impossible for immigrants to feel safe because at any moment they could get deported by the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). There is an important part about the raids that ICE keeps planning on the immigrant communities and instead of providing refuge and safety it is causing fear. She connects herself because her parents were immigrants and she like many others had to grow up without her parents.

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Immigration is deeply rooted in the American culture, yet it is still an issue that has the country divided. Marcelo and Carola Suarez-Orozco, in their essay, “How Immigrants Became ‘Other’” explore the topic of immigration. They argue that Americans view many immigrants as criminals entering America with the hopes of stealing jobs and taking over, but that this viewpoint is not true. They claim that immigrants give up a lot to even have a chance to come into America and will take whatever they can get when they come. The Suarez-Orozco’s support their argument using authority figures to gain credibility as well as exemplification through immigrant stories.

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According to a study released last year by the Pew Hispanic Center, as of 2008, 11.9 million illegal immigrants lived in the United States, more than triple the 3.5 million who lived in the country in 1990 (Izumi). Immigration throughout the years has become a major issue in the U.S because of too many immigrants entering the country year after year. The U.S has come to a point whether they should deport the immigrants back to their country. Believe it or not, these immigrants are a big contribution to the U.S. If it wasn’t for them, the U.S economy wouldn’t be where it stands now.

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There is a problem that is very important to me and millions of illegal Immigrants across the country. The issue is the length and the expense it takes for an illegal immigrant to fix their legal statuses. There is a certain type of Visa which is called the U-Visa which is a type of Visa only people who have either been physically or mentally hurt by someone in the United States. This is important because if you detain an immigrant it cost money to keep him/her incarcerated, also if they can work legally then they can pay taxes making more money for the government. There are many families that have been separated because of deportation, in September of 2014 there were 5,100 children in foster care and it is predicted to rise by 15,000 in the

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The United States of America, being a country founded by immigrants, is known all over the world as the land of great opportunities. People from all walks of life travelled across the globe, taking a chance to find a better life for them and their family. Over the years, the population of immigrants has grown immensely, resulting in the currently controversial issue of illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants are the people who have overstayed the time granted on their US, visa or those who have broken the federal law by crossing the border illegally. Matt O’Brien stated in his article “The government thinks that 10.8 million illegal immigrants lived in the country in January 2009, down from a peak of nearly 12 million in 2007.”(Para, 2) While some argue that illegal immigrants burden the United States of America and its economy, others believe that they have become essential and are an important part of the US, economy.

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