My fourth artifact is a news article on children that were abandoned during immigration. The article, "Mexico finds 370 abandoned immigrant children," focuses on children that were found in Mexico once they were abandoned by their "guides." Many times, parents will migrate to America, a lot of the time illegally, while leaving behind their children. Once they establish themselves, they will sometimes send money back to where they came from, paying for smugglers to bring their children to them. These 370 children were abandoned by their smugglers, after the smugglers were paid thousands of dollars. Many of them had injuries, dehydration, and/or fatigue.
This strikes a chord with me, because, as stated in my first artifact log, I can't really imagine going without my parents for a long time, especially if I didn't live the life I have now. These children are left, hopefully with other family members, without seeing them for years, which I can just think of as extremely sad. Not to mention that when they finally get to rejoin their parents, their supposed "guide" leaves them to fend for themselves, so they never actually reach their parents.
This relates to The Distance Between Us because Reyna and her siblings were left fatherless for a lot of their early years. Then, their mother left them as well. Luckily they got to stay with their grandmother, but sadly she didn't treat them very well. The difference is that Juana, Reyna's mother, returned to them after a few years, so they weren't parentless for an extremely long time. Then, when they finally got to go to the United States, they went with their father, who came back for them personally. Reyna and her sibling luckily weren't abandoned by a stranger, and instead got to go through illegally immigrating with their father. The fact that some children were abandoned before they even got to see their parents is horrible, and hopefully they were able to eventually return to their parents after what they went through.
I wrote about the same thing. First off your blog is very simple and is extremely easy to read, you don't make it difficult and I enjoyed reading it. The thing that I think you could improve on is adding more transitions because your writing appears choppy at times.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I could go on for very long without my parents, especially for however long they were out in the middle of the desert. I wonder if they found all the children in one place, or if they found them scattered about. That is one cruel scam trick those coyotes played on the parents.
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