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Sonia Nazario
  * Both parents were immigrants.
  * At 13 mother moved family back to Argentina   after father died
  * Military was going to kill 30,000
  * Life was more like hotel Rwanda
  * She saw blood on the ground an asked why , it was from two reporters trying to tell the TRUE story
  * “Knowledge is a deadly thing”
  * “that day I saw the power of the words “ – at only age 14
  * Dads death caused the family to become poor
  * Started working at 15 to help out
      * Followed boyfriend to College ( Williams)
  * One of 5 Latinos on campus
  *   “ they weren’t smarter , they were just more prepared”
  * Worked at the Wall Street Journal
  * Being a writer led her into some dangerous places, like crack sheds in L.A.
  * Fought for the right to have free breakfast for the kids who cannot afford it
  * Carmen her maid – left her 4 children in Guatemala , they starved
  * Has not seen her kids in 12 years.
  * Coxed her children to sleep on their bellies so that there tummies wouldn’t be so hungry.
  * 4 out of 5 live in nannies have at least one child still in the country they left
  * Carmen’s story is not un common
  * Biggest immigration
  * 1million immigrants come here (US) without permission
  * 1of4 students have either a parent or relative who is an immigrant
  * Separation between parent and child usually are 5-10 years.
  * 48,000 Kids sneek in to the US each year to come find most likely there parents
  * After 11 years Enrique went to search for his mother
      * Wondered if she loved him
  * He gripped on to a freight train to find his mom in the us
  * Thousands of kids go on this in hopes to find their mom or dad
  * Hunted down as they try to cross into Mexico
  * Run across this 3miles to get to the other train
  * Police will actually kidnap and rob and rape the girls before sending them back
  * Mexican gang now wait for the immigrants to get off the train
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