Enrique's Journey Timeline

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  • Lourdes, Eriques mother, is headed towards The USA leaving behind her two children Enrique and Belky

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    The Life of a Migrant

  • Mexico and the United States try to thwart migrants from getting on freight trains

  • a ferderal law begins requring judges to deport members of the US residents if they comitted serious crimes

  • nearly one in six migrant girls detained by authorities in Texas says they have been sexually assualted during their journey

  • human rights report said that migrants trying to make it through Chiapas face "an authentic race against time and death

  • one government worker in the Mexican state of Tobasco denounced corruption by certain judicial police agents

  • Sauceda discovers footprints near a cattle trough southwest of Encinal

  • Enriques is trying to quit on drugs

  • A Wolrd Bank study found that 42.5% of 100 million people live on $2 or less a day

  • Enrique's at his grandmother's house, he leaves to the US how Lourdes did

  • now Enriques is seventeen years old

  • he is only yards from the rail bed

  • migrants trapped were inside a boxcar when the temperature was over 100 degrees, just like an oven cooking them alive

  • Enrique has made it a third up of Mexico

  • its almost two months since he left Honduras

  • it is Mother's Day many churches celebratein Mexico

  • Enrique has made 60 pesos washing cars

  • Enrique wakes up with one of his shoes stolen

  • Enrique is on the edge of the water gettin ready to go to the side of the USA

  • Enrique wakes up in North Carolina with his stepfather driving

  • Maria Isabel gives birth to Erique's baby girl, Katerin Jasmin

  • the body of El Tirindaro, the smuggler who helped Enrique cross to Texas, was found near the road to the Nuevo Laredo airport

  • the train stop was moved to Los Toros, chiapas because La Arrocera became too dangerous even for migra agents

  • more than 5,000 Tapachula residents marched in the streets demanding that Mexico establish a death penalty for gangsters

  • Enrique has been in the US for 4 years now

  • a new police cheif, who vowed to bring law and order to the city, was shot hours after taking office

  • it's New Years Day, Belky calls her mother that she is pregnant

  • Belky gives birth to a baby boy, Alexander Jafeth

  • Enrique and Lourdes arrive to tape the show before a live audience. Belky arrives during the show

  • Belky gives her mother one last hug then returns to Honduras to her son