been separated from their families during the process of migration
imperative
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destroyed it
trauma
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mismatch between how I had imagined my new home and the reality of how it actually was.
expectations not met
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I could te
forever truama
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n-t-isn\ considered a «real" ,var, so lviexicans don't qualify for asylum. The United States considers persecution by a goven11nent a valid criterion for asy-lum, but not exploitation by criini.nal gai"'1gs or cartels.
little done for theppl suffeing
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er to stay with me or to talce me with them.
so young to even undersdtand anything
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My first traumatic experience happened before I had the ability to remember.
how young things can happen damn
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Tne traUJ.ua that propels us to this land, and the traun1atic e1..rperiences tl1at await us.
MOST IMPORTant
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Financially, it \l\rasn't possible. Legally, it wasn,t feasible
cant keep the family together
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fan1il
everything for family
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life
life for their kids and a chance of more
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rder where I got my first piggy-back ride from 111y father.
their goal was more important and used it to go through their truama
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1niracle that vve made it the third time, although my father had to carry me on his back most of the way.
the struggles
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nine years old, I v;ro.s too little to 1nake the crossing, and I could not make my legs run fast enough. I prayed for wings.
emphasiaze how even at such a young age, trauma can be suffered
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hance of having 1ny father back in 1ny life.
emotional trauma
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THE DISPLACED 1 remember so vividly that mon1ent ·when we ·were trying to cross, crawling through bushes, jumping over rocks, 1ny body burning from the heat of the unforgiving s1n1
physical trauma
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illegal" human being by cross, ing without permission for a chance to finally have a family
emoahsizw the choice of words here
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new life together
end goal
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had borrowed money from every-one he knew and hired a smuggler
convey how drastic of time it really is
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t as he had left us: hungry, poor, vulnerable.
emphasize once more how their life hasnt changed but his has
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run awa
emphasize how she felt, maybe bc of the sudden apperacne and vast diff in life
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my broken sandals held together by wire. "Go say hello to your father:'
just to emphasize once more the shift between her world and her father
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I had to stand before this clean, well-fed stranger wearing a
comparison of their life to the new person, emphasizes her psat life etc
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Nobody had to tell me who the man sitting on my grand-mother's couch was. I'd grown up looking at his photo-graph hanging on our wall.
Hasnt really met much, but knows well of bc of what they are told about the person
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