Satire Essay On Emigration Of Children

Denise Zelaya

Expository Comp

Ms. Abad

17 October 2014

Emigration of Children As of October of 2013 there has been an estimate of sixty thousand illegal immigrant children crossing into the U.S. border to try to better themselves. As Americas we believe that every illegal immigrant wants to come into the U.S. to take our jobs what we don’t know if the current situations occurring in their countries. Most people emigrate to the United States of America to live the “American Dream.” However, young children emigrate from their countries due to the ongoing poverty and violence. As a nation we label hopeless immigrated minors as criminals for undergoing a harsh journey to better their future. Therefore, the United States of America should start

border or death might come early to their children while on their journey to the border of the United States of America. In most cases not all families have enough money to pay a coyote that will cross their children to the U.S. The Daily Mail states in their online article that prices of smuggling children are outrages “Migrants are paying anywhere from $4,000 to $10,000 each for the illegal journey across thousands of miles in the care of smuggling networks” (The Daily Mail Reporter 1). There has been several cases based on deaths of children who do not make it through the hundred degree weather in the deserts, drown in the rivers or fall of a fast moving cargo train. Staff Writer, Noel Swan in her article talks about an eleven-year-old young boy who was on his way to Chicago but didn’t make it through his journey “Authorities suspect that he succumbed to heat stroke, because he was wearing no shirt, just a white rosary” (Swan 1). Half of the time the unaccompanied illegal immigrant youth is targeted on this journey and are often sexually abused or physically abused. April Dirks-Bihun states in her article, “Undocumented children are highly vulnerable to sexual abuse, and detection and reporting are difficult because of their noncitizen status” (Bihun 1). Frequently not only children are sexually or physically abused. Women are sexually abused and physically abused also. There

Us Americas bash on them for coming into our land to take our jobs and our money, but we do not realize that once our ancestors might have migrated into this country for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Most people do not realize that themselves as American citizens will not go onto the fields to pick fruits and vegetables because they just got a hundred dollar manicure they will not do what an immigrant will do to make a living. Jenna Johnson in her online article spoke about the current hate most illegal immigrant children are receiving in West Minister, Maryland “…undocumented immigrant children might soon live in a former military facility in this town, graffiti appeared on the one-story brick building: “No illeagles here. No undocumented Democrats” (Johnson 6). Public schools around the U.S. feel at danger that shortly they will be receiving illegal immigrant children into their schools. There only option is to allow this “plaque” into their schools with or without their immunization records at