1. Enrique’s Journey

2. A Short Quiz

3. Question 1
True or False
Over 2/3 of Undocumented Immigrants arrived in the United States by crossing the border.
False. About 45% of undocumented immigrants have overstayed visas

4. Question 2
True or False
Undocumented Immigrant individuals have higher rates of crime than native born citizens.
False. Undocumented immigrants are anywhere from 1/2 to 1/5 as likely to commit a crime compared to Citizens

5. Question 3 True or False Undocumented Immigrants do not pay taxes.
False. Undocumented Immigrants contribute roughly $11.6 billion annually in Federal, State, and Local Taxes

6. Enrique’s Journey
For the Next 3-4 Weeks we will be Reading a Novel to Explore the issue of Immigration in Catholic Social Thought

7. Enrique’s Journey Sonia Nazario American Journalist, Los Angeles Times
Enrique’s Journey, Published 2006
American Journalist, Los Angeles Times
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Novel was a 5 Year Project

8. Why did NAzario write the Book?
She was inspired when talking with her housekeeper named Carmen
Carmen left her four children 12 years prior to Sonia’s book to work in the United States
Carmen’s Husband left her for another woman
Many nights she was unable to feed her children

9. Why did Nozario write the Book?
Carmen, at the time, still had not saved enough money to pay a smuggler to bring her children to the US
Carmen feared if she is ever was able to save the money, her daughters would be raped along the journey
Carmen’s son, after many years, set off to come find his mother

10. Employment Statistics

11. Countries of Origin for Undocumented Immigrants

12. Countries of Origin for Undocumented Immigrants

13. El Tren de la Muerte
Those journeying to the United States ride atop the Mexican freight trains
Referred to as “El Tren de la Muerte,” “Bestia”
Trains of Death or Beasts

14. Caused a Question What would I do if I were in their shoes?
Would I come to the US, where I could earn more money to send back?

15. Undocumented Immigrant Statistics
Where are we today in terms of numbers?

16. Undocumented Immigrant Statistics 59% of Undocumented Immigrants reside in: 1. California 2. Texas 3. Florida 4. new York 5. New Jersey 6. Illinois

17. Dangers faced on the train
Gangs who rule the train tops
Bandits who wait along the tracks
Mexican police who patrol stations
Frequently extort travelers
Physical Dangers – falling, loss of limbs, death

18. Sonia’s Journey
2,000 mile long journey

19. Sonia’s Journey Basic Rules
She’d never get on a moving train (Broke once)
She’d have documentation from Mexican government
This kept her from Jail time on 3 Occasions
She sought accompaniment from an armed Mexican migrant rights group
She had a cell phone always on her in event of emergency
She had a point person in several regions along the way
When possible freight drivers knew she was on the train top

20. Sonia’s Journey
Before embarking, she reached out to roughly a dozen church-shelters along the way
As she journeyed, she interviewed priests and shelter directors looking for a minor who was making the journey
Finally a nun connected her to Enrique

21. Sonia’s Journey
She traveled to Nuevo Laredo and shadowed Enrique for two weeks along the Rio Grande
Many bandits purposefully steal paper, knowing the kids will write down all the contact information of family in the US
Most kids don’t think they need to memorize it
Enrique was such a kid

22. Enrique’s Journey

23. Strangers No Longer
Over the next two weeks on days when you don’t have presentations - I will be lecturing the Christian teachings regarding immigration

24. Novel Class Discussion
During the class reading of Enrique’s Journey, you will be in groups of roughly 3.  Each group will be responsible for leading the class in an approximately minute discussion over an assigned chapter of the Novel

25. Grading Timing Preparation Delivery Skills Discussion Questions
Leading Discussion
A rubric will be posted on my website tomorrow and a hard copy shared in class

26. Presentation
You may use  PowerPoint, Slides, or Keynote for your presentation. In it you may want:
1-3 Slides Over Plot
1-2 Slides Over Major Themes in Chapter
1-2 Slides over Important Characters
1-3 Slides over Significant Quotations and what they mean
REQUIRED: 5 Thought Provoking Discussion Questions (2 of which should be moral or ethical in nature)

27. Discussion Questions
Prepare 5 discussions questions, which refer or are based on the reading from the assigned chapter
All questions should be thought provoking, understandable, and engaging
At least one of the questions relate or connects to a recent world event, relevant to the chapter.

28. Leading Discussion
Each presenter in a group equally leads a part of the discussion
Presenters’  actively listen to peer responses, ask follow up questions in order to further develop the idea/insights of responder
Presenters share their own responses to some of the discussion questions

29. Audience Expectations
Students serving as the audience will be awarded 25 points if they meet the following conditions...
Respond to at least four group discussion questions
Responses to discussion questions are respectful, well thought out, appropriate, and in depth. Answered loudly.
Refrains from sleeping, talking, texting, using iPad, or doing anything else that leads on to not be focused
Shows respect to presenters at all times and in all ways

30. Timeline 1. Boy Left Behind For Wednesday (4/5)
Quizzes &
Presentations on:
1. Boy Left Behind For Wednesday (4/5)
2. Seeking Mercy For Monday (4/10)
3. Facing the Beast For Monday (4/10)
4. Gifts and Faith For Wednesday (4/12)
5. On the Border For Tuesday (4/18)
6. A Dark River, Perhaps a New Life For Wednesday (4/19)
7. The Girl Left Behind For Friday (4/21)
8. A Mother’s Embrace For Monday (4/24)
9. Epilogue For Tuesday (4/25)
10. Afterword For Wednesday (4/26)

31. Audience Expectations
Class B
9 Groups of 3
1 Group of 2

32. Form your Groups
Come Forward with your Group Provide me with your names and the Day You’d like to Present

33. Strangers No Longer Co-Authored in 2003 by USCCB and CEM
Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano

34. Response to… Pope John Paul II’s Ecclesia in America
Delivered in 1999 at Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe

35. Major Theme
Awaken our Peoples to “the mysterious presence of the Crucified and risen Lord in person of the migrant.”

36. Chapters 1 and 2
The Boy Left Behind
Seeking Mercy

37. HOMEWORK Please Read Chapter 3 for Wednesday Its 40 Pages
You might want to break it up over two days

38. Some Major Themes Desperation International Dimension Trash-Scavengers
Transnational Gangs
Varying Attitudes toward Migrants