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Enrique's Journey (Adapted for Young People)
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- He has been deported back to Honduras but is determined to return to the United States.
p. 29.3 *deported = forced to move (from where they now lived)
- The only way she'll go back now, she tells herself, is by force, if she is deported.
p. 40.4
- Enrique prays he and Jose will not be deported back to Guatemala.
p. 45.8
- They take the boys to a cell filled with Mara Salvatrucha gangsters, then deport them.
p. 46.4deport = force (him) to leave the country
- These buses make as many as eight runs a day, deporting more than a hundred thousand unhappy passengers every year.
p. 46.7 *deporting = behaving (in a manner)
- He was caught and deported.
p. 67.7deported = forced to move (from where they now lived)
- Soon they will be shoved into a packed jail cell, then deported.
p. 68.1
- Two days ago he was battered in Las Anonas; yesterday he was shuttled back to Guatemala on the deportation bus.
p. 68.7deportation = for forcing someone to leave a country
- For migrants, going to police authorities would be dangerous anyway because they could be deported.
p. 78.3deported = forced to move (from where they now lived)
- Tearfully, she prays he will be caught and deported back to Honduras, back by her side.
p. 82.7
- Many gangsters settle in Chiapas after committing crimes in the United States and being deported to their home countries in Central America.
p. 84.3
- Many migrants who first set out on the train with Enrique have been caught and deported.
p. 87.5
- If he doesn't look like a local, the police might search him and deport him.
p. 92.2deport = force (him) to leave the country
- In 1995 he was deported from California.
p. 102.9deported = forced to move (from where they now lived)
- Bribing the police is the only way for Enrique to keep himself from being deported back to Central America.
p. 105.1
- Others demand fifty—or more—and then turn you over to la migra to be deported anyway.
p. 105.2
- He will not be deported after all.
p. 105.5
- Enrique marvels at how far he has come, how close he has come to getting caught and deported over and over again.
p. 116.1
- They were deported to Guatemala.
p. 129.2
- At supper at the San Jose church, Enrique meets men who have been deported by border agents.
p. 140.4
- There is a juvenile prison in Liberty, Texas, forty-six miles northeast of Houston, where many minors who are captured trying to enter the United States alone and illegally are sent to await deportation.
p. 151.9deportation = the act of forcing someone to leave a country
- They are given little information about when they might be brought before an immigration judge or deported.
p. 152.2deported = forced to move (from where they now lived)
- And if she did make it to the United States, she'd have to live there illegally, always fearful of being caught and deported.
p. 187.4
- Like most parents in similar circumstances, Enrique and Maria Isabel are fearful of Jasmin being deported.
p. 204.5
- To a group of African American gangsters at the apartment complex, wads of cash, plus the fact that the Latino men are unwilling to report crimes to police for fear of being deported, make them an ideal target.
p. 205.4
- Like most immigrants in the United States illegally, he fears that calling the cops will lead to deportation.
p. 207.9deportation = being forced to leave the country
- Worse, Lourdes fears that because she went on Don Francisco's television show without disguising herself and because many in the neighborhood have tied her to a bestselling book about undocumented immigrants, her family's odds of being deported are potentially higher.
p. 208.1deported = forced to move (from where they now lived)
- As the federal program was adopted by thousands of police departments, deportations increased 40 percent between fiscal years 2006 and 2011, a year when the United States deported nearly 400,000 immigrants nationwide.
p. 210.1
- "I worry," the girl says, "about my mom being deported."
p. 210.6
- The day after Enrique's arrest, sheriffs hand him over to immigration authorities, who place him in a county jail in Florida and begin deportation proceedings.
p. 210.7deportation = the act of forcing someone to leave a country
- They would pour many, many hours for free into Enrique's case and pursue two legal strategies: that either a past trauma or a future one he might face should save Enrique from deportation.
p. 213.9deportation = being forced to leave the country
- Congress envisioned the U visa as an invaluable tool to encourage migrants frightened of coming forward and cooperating with police because doing so could result in deportation or lethal retaliation from gangs.
p. 214.3deportation = the act of forcing someone to leave a country
- They do not consider Enrique's initial fear of approaching authorities because he believed he would be deported.
p. 215.2deported = forced to move (from where they now lived)
- Enrique's attorneys focus on another claim that the U.S. government should allow Enrique to stay in the country because his notoriety would make him the target of the Zetas if he was deported.
p. 215.4
- When he hears about his son's birth, Enrique momentarily considers signing papers to be deported to Honduras, despite the risk of being killed there.
p. 215.7
- He feels frustrated hearing that friends and relatives who were deported are back in the United States in just one or two months.
p. 215.8
- If Enrique gets deported, returns to the United States, and again gets caught by police, the consequences could be severe.
p. 216.7
- Enrique will ask the court for relief from deportation, which is granted to immigrants who fear persecution if they return home.
p. 216.9deportation = the act of forcing someone to leave a country
- On July 19, 2012, the judge orders Enrique deported.
p. 217.6deported = forced to move (from where they now lived)
- She asks God to save her son from deportation, from death.
p. 220.7deportation = the act of forcing someone to leave a country
- For if he is deported, the cycle will begin anew.
p. 220.8deported = forced to move (from where they now lived)
- Between 2001 and 2004, the number of Central American migrants detained and deported each year by Mexico nearly doubled, to more than 200,000.
p. 223.2
- Another 16,000 Mexican unaccompanied minors were caught and immediately deported.
p. 223.7
- He must live in the shadows, knowing he can be deported at any time.
p. 225.6
- They are able to get away with this for the same reason that gangster violence and crime in Mexico toward Central Americans has gone underreported: if immigrants went to the police to complain, they would be found out as illegal and deported.
p. 235.9
- In 2012, President Obama gained an election advantage by signing an executive order that allowed two-year relief from deportation for 1.7 million immigrants who came to the United States unlawfully as children.
p. 240.1deportation = the act of forcing someone to leave a country
- During the Great Depression, the United States deported a million people of Mexican origin, including half who were in the country legally.
p. 241.1deported = forced to move (from where they now lived)
- They pray on top of the train cars, asking God to protect them against bandits, who rob and beat them; police, who shake them down; and la migra, the Mexican immigration authorities, who deport them.†
p. 95.1
- Now the agents cannot use it to locate and deport her.†
p. 149.7
- Authorities would deport the Mexicans back across the river, but they would send him all the way back to Honduras.†
p. 151.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(deport as in: deport from the U.S.) forced removal to another location -- typically a different country
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(2)
(deport as in: deport herself with dignity) behave in a certain manner
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)