How To Write An Essay On Enrique's Journey

Enrique’s Journey takes place in Central America when a Honduran boy, named Enrique, decides to go on a quest in search for his mother who moved to the US in hopes of a better life and also a way to provide for her two children. Many Central American mothers make the trip to America to send money back to their children to give them better lives than they could give them if they stayed in their native land (Nazario, xi). As Americans, we probably don’t understand the full extent of how abandoning your children could help them in any way, but the book does a great job of really putting it into perspective. As I was reading this book, a question arose to me. Enrique was motivated to go to the US because his mother was there and his mother, Lourdes, was motivated to go to the US to provide a better life for her children, but what about all the others? Not just from Central America, but from all the other places the US receives immigrants from. What truly motivates people to migrate to the US?

America is the leading country in immigration. It is the prime destination for immigrants and refugees. In 2008, there was roughly 38 million foreign-born people in the US, in which 53% were born in Latin America, 27% in Asia, 13% in Europe, and only 3% from Africa. The leading countries that the US receives
Many immigrants leave their homes because they feel as if their country is actually pushing them out. It may be a number of things that cause this. In some countries, citizens may be persecuted based on their beliefs or religions. They may be trying to escape revolutions or wars or it may just be a very unstable time in their economy in which the people don’t feel safe. Also, in the countries with higher emigration rates the poverty is very extreme. This explains a number of things because the US is a very developed country, one of the most developed actually