Immigration is a traumatizing event that tears families apart. Parents leave their children hoping to create a better where they don't have to worry about feeding their families or not having enough money to give them an education. They leave telling themselves that they will come back, but most of them never do. There are some benefits to migration like, sending money so that they can go to school and eat but there are also some consequences. Children who are left behind feel abandoned and they feel like no one loves them or cares about them. Many make choices in which they are not proud of, but do anyway to feel the love that they never felt like they received.
A story that can tear a family apart is the one of Enrique. His mother had left him when he was young and when he turned sixteen he left to seek his mother, leaving his pregnant girlfriend behind. It took him eight tries to finally cross to border into the United States. When his little girl was four she and his girlfriend made their way to Florida where they could be a family. One night the police came and arrested Enrique for not paying a ticket that he received while driving. He was then handed over to the federal immigration officers where he was soon deported. He was being separated from his family, but this time in reverse and he was the one leaving, not his mother.
In the book The Distance Between Us Reyna was left by her mother, to help her father, at her abusive Grandmother's house. Her father had left years earlier to earn enough money to build his dream house. About a year and half after her mother left she came back with their new baby sister, but not their father. Reyna and her siblings soon learned that he left their mother for another women. She was a different person now. They soon went to go live with their mother and they ran out of money really fast. Their mom soon left again with her boyfriend and they were left alone again. She came back a few months later because her boyfriend had been killed in a car crash. Reyna and her family could not forgive her and soon she moved in with her sister miles and miles away and it was like she left all over again. They soon felt like they were not loved by their mother, but hen their father came a rescued them.
Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/opinion/the-heartache-of-an-immigrant-family.html?pagewanted=all
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