Sonia Nazario's Journey

On the day of the SI Debate in Bovard, I was not too excited about the meeting.  Part of the reason was because I had no clue what I would be sitting and listening to and the other part of the reason was because I was gloomy from the rain.  However, my spirits were lifted when I learned we were to be discussing Enrique's Journey.  In high school I had always heard of my classmates reading the novel and heard their rave reviews of it.  Despite this, I never was inspired to crack open the book myself. 

Unexpectantly, one day on vacation in Palm Springs with my family, me and my mother were scrolling through the hotel's channel selection and stumbled upon a documentary.  Watching HBO shows is a thing me and my mother like doing together and we had nothing planned for the rest of that night so we sat down and tuned in.  This documentary happened to be everything Nazario discussed in the presentation last week.  Watching the documentary was so depressing.  I couldn't fathom risking my life 28 times to see my mother.  The determination and courage many immigrants have is unmeasurable!  Today, me and so many other teenage Americans are so lazy that we hesitate to respond to our mothers after she has cooked a meal for us.  Traveling through four countries with no food, water, shower, safe transportation and healthy conditions to see a family member is unheard of in this country. 

The presentation left me with the following questions:

• If we were to improve relations with other countrys' immigrants, what would the government do to ensure this happens?
• How much money is spent on patroling the border?
• Why is this not taught more widely in elementary, middle and high schools?
• How was Sonia Nazario able to make all those trips without being hurt, robbed, attacked, etc.?