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<strong>TIME</strong><br />
THE<br />
IMMIGRANT’S<br />
JOURNEY<br />
A story of survival and hope on<br />
the United States-Mexico border<br />
by Daniel Tyx
AN IMMIGRANT’S JOURNEY<br />
ONE MAN’S STORY<br />
Abandoned by his<br />
parents, Enrique rode<br />
the rails from<br />
Honduras to the<br />
United States,.<br />
He is not alone...<br />
By Daniel Tyx<br />
A<br />
s the dawn breaks on a<br />
new day in Honduras,<br />
Enrique wakes up in the<br />
dirt floor house that he<br />
has lived in ever cince his mother left<br />
for the United States. He prepares a<br />
cup of coffee and eats a breakfast of<br />
fried plantains that he cooks himself<br />
and beans that are left over from the<br />
previous day. It seems like any other<br />
day, except that for day, Enrique will<br />
attempt to make the journey through<br />
three countries into the United<br />
States, riding the rails in a dangerous<br />
journey that many immigrant will<br />
not survive.<br />
Enrique’’s story, is not unique.<br />
Abandoned by his mother at the age<br />
of seven after she left to pursue a<br />
better life in the United States, he<br />
has now become one of the estimated<br />
100,000 minors who each year brave<br />
roving bands of robbers, corrupt police,<br />
and armed narcotraficantes to<br />
pursue a dream of a better life in the<br />
United States. Less than 10% of<br />
these migrants will ever make it to<br />
their destination. Many will give up<br />
in the face of arrests, deportations,<br />
hunger, and the constant threat of<br />
injury. Others, though, will continue,<br />
even after five, ten, or twenty times<br />
of failure. This is the story of one<br />
teen who made it to the United<br />
States,. It is a story of great courage<br />
and great hardship...and it is a story<br />
that is being repreated over and over<br />
across the Americas every day.<br />
This story begins seven years<br />
earlier, when Enrique’s mother,<br />
Lourdes, made a similar trip