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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