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Vidal is a 13 year old, Hispanic male, from Guatemala. Vidal arrived at Leake and Watts on 08/11/2017 after being detained by Immigration Costume Enforcement (ICE) in Texas together with his alleged father Cristian Alvarado Alvarado. Both were separated during the time of apprehension. Vidal traveled from Guatemala to the United States illegally with his alleged father and a different identification due to extreme poverty and the lack of educational opportunities in Guatemala. Due to continuous assessment with Vidal, he disclosed the idea of journeying to the USA come from Cristian Alvarado Alvarado and Berta Maribel Funes both related to the family.
In chapter two of the book Enrique’s Journey, Enrique has made a total of seven attempts trying to cross the borders. In the first attempt, la migra caught Enrique and his friend, Jose del Carmen Bustamante, while they were riding the train from Honduras and to Veracruz in Central Mexico. They got sent back to Guatemala on El Bus de Lagrimas, the Bus of Tears. In the second attempt, Enrique traveled alone and got caught by the police. They, once again, put him on the bus and sent him back to Guatemala.
Juan de Oñate: The Last Conquistador Your name Name of the University Juan de Onate: The Last Conquistador Juan de Onate, described as the last conquistador was a great person who led hundreds of families to settle in one of the oldest European colonies in the United States in search of unimaginable wealth. Juan de Onate was born in 1550 to aristocrats Cristobal de Onate and Catalina de Salazar in Vera Cruz, Mexico. Cristobal and Catalina were wealthy Spanish colonists and proud owners of a silver mine in Zacatecas, which is currently located in the north central Mexico. Juan involved himself in safeguarding his father’s silver mines right from an early age.
What are the chances of a castaway Spaniard making their way from Southeast Texas to Mexico? What about if the year is 1528 and the entire journey is full of peril? Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish Military veteran who was serving as a treasurer on one of a conquistador’s ship. After landing in the wrong place due to tricky currents, The crew that Cabeza was on was stranded in what is now Tampa Bay, Florida. The conquistador ordered rafts to be built that could carry the men to Mexico.
According to Hernandez, “ Mexicans in the borderlands, regardless of immigration of citizenship status, were subject to high levels of suspicion, surveillance, and state violence as border patrol officers aggressively policed not only the U.S and Mexico border but also Mexican communities and work sites” (Hernandez Pg. 2). In her book, Hernandez tells the story of how Mexican immigrant workers became
The book, The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea, is based on the true story of the Yuma-14 or Wellstone 26, who were Mexicans that crossed the American border and died while doing so. This novel goes through not only the story of the Yuma-14 but the background of what happened before their journey and after their deaths, as well as the mentalities of the Border Patrol agents. It gives you the complete picture of what had happened. The Devil’s Highway starts off with a brief background about what happened.
This Chapter is basically about how people discriminate immigrants for being different and making connection between the past and the present. Miguel de la Torre, a Hispanic man, compares the typical immigrant life, including his, with Jesus Christ. He claims most Hispanics/Latinos/as whom came to “el Norte” and suffered some type of racism for being “illegal” happen to have a similar life as the one the son of God had. According to Miguel, Jesus today is an immigrant whom escaped his origin land, like most Hispanics, with the only difference that Jesus and his earthly parents left their land for protection, and Hispanics, now a days, leave their origin country for economic/political purposes. Miguel also points out how God decided to place
“No other city north of the border and only one city south of the border was home to more Mexicans” (Lytle Hernández, 2017: Kindle Location 2900-2901). Dr. Lytle Hernández allows us to see through her historical lens as she builds up the city of Los Angeles, allowing me to realise the severity of the racism, disposition, oppression, and unrecognition Latina/os have had to endure in US society by correlating it to the large dark history of incarceration Los Angeles has had throughout the years. Latina/os will never fit the Anglo American view for the “Aryan City of the Sun” and would rather pass laws in order to incriminate and disposition them, not allowing them to fully settle in Los Angeles. By the 1880s many people started to settle west, in search of constructing the perfect city with Anglo-American ideals, something that Latina/os could never be a part of. As an Anglo-American preacher named Bob Shuler once stated on his radio program, “Los Angeles is the last purely Anglo-Saxon city . . .
Miguel Hidalgo When people think of an epic hero, do they think of an epic hero as being only a story-base character or can they be real people? Miguel Hidalgo certainly fits the epic hero exemplar. He has strong enough qualities that can support an answer stating that, real people are able to represent an epic hero. Most people define an epic hero as “brave and noble character in an epic poem, admired for great achievements or affected by grand
The relationship between Chicanos and Central Americans is a unique one because there is often a misconception and racialization that Central Americans and Chicano are one in the same based on physical characteristics and the way their cultures have intertwined. As Alvarado mention in her article, mutual misrepresentation both groups have not been able to fully represent themselves as either Chicano/Chicana or Central American or perhaps a mixture of both. Both Chicanos and Central Americans for years have occupied the same places and have very similar customs leading to the generalization that all brown people are Mexican or of Mexican descent. As stated in Alvarado’s paper “The Central American borderlands include the isthmus through Mexico
Pedro Lopez , also known as “The Monster of the Andes”, was born on October 8, 1949 in Tolima, Colombia. He was known for being a serial killer for murdering about one hundred ten to three hundred young girls, and a rapist for raping about three hundred young girls in South America. He was also in the Guinness World Records for being the "most prolific serial killer". His mother, Benilda López De Casteneda, was a prostitute at about the age of twelve and his father, Midardo Reyes, was a member of the Colombian Conservative Party (something dealing with politics) where they lived in poverty and political violence. Lopez was the seventh child out of thirteen children.
Many immigrants have suffered a lot during the trip to Rio Branco city, from Port au Prince, almost all were victims of "coyotes": Peruvians that made false promises to Haitians. Several women were raped, and many others spent the money they do not had to realize the dream of traveling to Brazil. The goal would be to get a job at any job area. When they got to Rio Branco, everyone seemed
Even though Guatemala has a contrasting culture with the culture of North America, an American would not feel completely out of the loop if they visited Guatemala for a vacation. While North America has more advanced technology, Guatemala does have some similarities that would make an American visiting more comfortable. Like stated before, Guatemala does have some current technology like smartphones and newer model cars, though most cars in Guatemala are manual and most cars in the USA are automatic. These common and similar pieces of technology would make a visitor happier, since technology would not be a completely foreign topic to them. Also, in the cities and more urban areas of Guatemala you see shopping centers and restaurants that are
Throughout history, humans have always been afraid of anything and anyone unlike their culture. Even in the twenty-first century, there is heated debate surrounding illegal immigration in America; some believe that illegal immigrants from Mexico are stealing jobs and harming the economy. These irrational fears are discussed in Luis Alberto Urrea’s book, “The Devil’s Highway,” which tells the true story of 26 illegal immigrants who are abandoned after crossing the U.S. border. Through this true story, Urrea shows the mistreatment of illegal immigrants, and his use of historical examples reveals that immigrants have always been subject to prejudice and persecution in the United States.
There are a lot of controversial issues surrounding this country. Whitin all those controversial issues there 's the “issue” of illegal immigration. I 'm sure we 're all familiar with the term “illegal immigration”. We’re always told about how bad it is. Don 't get me wrong, it is bad but it 's not done with the intention of hurting someone else but to try and change their future.
