In her words, "Moving to the States was not a necessity in my adolescent mind. Yes, I dreamt of things I didn’t have in Honduras — a bicycle, my own bed, ice cream, apples, enough food to make my belly ache. But I did not fear for my life."
She talks about how everything is different, more dangerous, more scary than when she lived there. How drug trafficking and gangs are taking over her old city she used to love. Immigration can be connected to Honduras in many ways today, but in this article, it’s mostly focusing on how things changed.
In The Distance Between Us, Reyna and her sister visit the little city she grew up in, and to her, everything changed. Everything became less happy, and the harsh reality slapped her in the face that she changed, and that she was a stranger to her old home. Everyone of her old friends were almost scared of her judging them, and their lives. Reyna's sister didn't even want to be in the town anymore, claiming it was too filthy for her. Immigration changes people, but it also changes the places that people flee from.
Today Honduras is a country that has thousands of children fleeing from it because of how dangerous it's become to live there. Parents fear for their children's lives and force them to try and illegally get into America.
In my next artifact I will talk more about how children are being forced to run from Honduras because it’s getting too dangerous to live there. The origins of why this is happening. In my last article, I will talk about what the U.S is doing about the children trying to get into America. Immigration is terrifying and doesn’t always work out, but in this article I just read, it really shows that anything is better than what they're running from.
If you want to read the article, you can find it here.
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