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Enrique's Journey (Adapted for Young People)
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- In 2000, the year Enrique left to find his mother, he was one of an estimated 48,000 other children and teenagers who left Central America and Mexico to come to the United States, illegally and without either parent.
p. 14.1estimated = a rough count (not exact)
- Since Enrique set off, the number of children entering the United States alone and unlawfully from Mexico and Central America has surged to an estimated one hundred thousand per year.
p. 14.4
- There are several children on board, and Grupo Beta, the government migrant rights group in Chiapas, estimates that 20 to 30 percent of migrants who board here are fifteen or younger.†
p. 72.9estimates = rough calculations or guesses of values, quantities, or extents
- Mario Campos Gutierrez, the Grupo Beta Sur supervisor, estimates that half of those who try to migrate north eventually get here—after repeated attempts.†
p. 86.9
- The Red Cross estimates that every other day in Chiapas alone, a migrant riding the freight trains loses an arm, leg, hand, or foot.†
p. 87.6
- This estimate does not include people who die instantly.†
p. 87.7estimate = a rough calculation or guess of a value, quantity, or extent of something
- Enrique's cousin who made the journey in 2012 estimates that a third of migrants get kidnapped.†
p. 216.7estimates = rough calculations or guesses of values, quantities, or extents
- An estimated one million children live illegally in the United States, most from Mexico and Central America.
p. 221.1 *estimated = a rough count (not exact)
- Experts estimate that for every migrant who gets caught there are two or three who don't, which means an estimated 100,000 children came to the United States unaccompanied by a parent or other adult that year.†
p. 223.8estimate = a rough calculation or guess of a value, quantity, or extent of something
- Experts estimate that for every migrant who gets caught there are two or three who don't, which means an estimated 100,000 children came to the United States unaccompanied by a parent or other adult that year.†
p. 223.8estimated = roughly calculated or guessed (based on incomplete information) a value, quantity, or extent of something
- Newcomer School psychologist Laura Lopez estimates that only 70 of 430 students will complete high school.†
p. 228.7estimates = rough calculations or guesses of values, quantities, or extents
- The burden to taxpayers is greatest in immigrant-heavy states such as California, where an estimated half of all children have immigrant parents.†
p. 234.5estimated = roughly calculated or guessed (based on incomplete information) a value, quantity, or extent of something
- Residents estimated that the block's population had tripled since 1970; up to seventeen immigrants were jammed into one small stucco house.
p. 236.5estimated = guessed (based on incomplete information)
- So do residents of immigrant-heavy states such as California, where an estimated quarter of illegal immigrants live, because services immigrants use disproportionately, such as public schools, are funded with local and state taxes.†
p. 237.9estimated = roughly calculated or guessed (based on incomplete information) a value, quantity, or extent of something
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(1)
(estimate) rough calculation or judgment
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)