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Presently speaking, there have been more reinforcements for
border control making it difficult to cross, especially for children. In the article/video Mexican Child Migrants Try Border CrossingsMultiple Times, Study Says written by
Rafael Romo gives readers solid statistics on border crossings. Less than thirty percent of Mexican children
have only been apprehended for the first time out of the group of 11, 000
Mexican children (from the time frame of October to the thirty-first of May). This means there have been more than 8000
children attempted to cross the border more than once. It makes sense for children to have several attempts because they don’t have the patience, aren’t fast enough, and need support.
For
example, in the memoire The Distance
Between Us, it took Reyna, her father, and her siblings’ two failed attempts and a
third successful time to run across the border. The main reason for both failures was because of
Reyna (as a child). She wasn’t fast enough and couldn’t keep up with the rest of the
family. It caused the family to be
deported back two times. When Mexican children do successfully cross the
border, many Mexican adolescents do not receive same treatment as the South
American minors do, when caught. Mexican
children will be deported immediately because there isn’t a law (for bordering
countries of Canada and Mexico) to be processed by the ORR (Department of Health
and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement).
The new data
has opened my eyes on the immense amount of Mexican minors who are trying to
cross the border. The main reason I
think they are flooding into the U.S. is because of the violence and crime back
in Mexico. The second main reason I think is because these children’s parents
are living in the United States. Their
guardians left their children behind for a better life. If the parents are lucky to come back
for their children, the daughters or sons would do anything to be with their
parents. They would dash across the border with their parent(s) in a heartbeat. Some children don’t even know why their
parents are crossing into the United States but only go with because they
don’t want to be separated from their parents.
If any logical person thinks about it, it makes sense from the eyes of a child.
Before
Reyna Grande (from the memoire The
Distance Between Us) lived in the United States, she was barely living in
Iguala, Mexico, waiting for her dad to return. The day he did returned from the United
States, all of his children wanted to go back to the U.S. with him. The last thing they wanted to be is separated from their father. “All I could think of was why there would be a law that would prevent
children from being with their father.
That was the only reason I’d come to the country after all” (Reyna 165). Children need their parents and being apart
from their parents is too difficult for any child.
I’m
surprised about the equality treatment between Central or South America
compared Mexico. Through a child’s eyes
it isn’t fair because both groups (South America and Mexico) are risking
everything to cross the border but a group of children gets to stay in the
United States for two years while the other is immediately deported. The
opposite side of the argument is it’s harder for Central or South American
children to cross the border multiple times because they have to cover more
ground. The bordering country's immigrant children are closer and can
cross the border faster after being deported. I personally
disagree about the rule; I think there should be an exceptions for every
child. People will never know what a
child has been through until someone has stepped into their shoes and walked a
hundred miles.
Work Cited
Renya Grande. The Distance Between Us. New York:
Washington Square Press, 2012.
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