Could you imagine?
First of all, could you imagine living in a world experiencing extreme and continuous poverty, as well as violence so bad that you had to fear for your life whenever you left your home? Could you imagine growing up and not really having any options for your future besides being in a gang?
Then, could you imagine leaving your family behind and taking with you either your life savings or just the clothes on your back... and then traveling through maybe one, maybe two, maybe three different countries in order to try to reach the United States? And doing it all based on a hope that maybe, just MAYBE you will be able to sneak in and get a job in the fields somewhere.
Could you imagine traveling on the top of trains in the middle of the summer days? Could you imagine risking your life by riding the trains, not from the heat or train crashes, but by the gangs and traffickers that patrol the trains?
Could you imagine even getting on top of those trains? Personally, I wouldn't make it to the roof. I'd get my legs caught in the belly of "la bestia" or "the beast" and that would most certainly be the end of me.
Could you imagine?
And now, after reading "The Culture of Cruelty" that was referenced in my last post, could you imagine being detained by border patrol and subject to their abuse? As a teenager? As a teenage girl? I can't.
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