They were told taking the risky journey alone would lead them to the life of their dreams. It was anything but.
GUATEMALA CITY—Eight-year-old Valeria and four-year-old Fernanda embarked onlast year. Their mother, Francisca, had promised them that getting to America would give them everything they could ever imagine. But they didn’t understand why they were walking for hours under the sun, spending nights in unknown dark rooms, and entrusting their lives toStill, the girls obeyed their mother’s instructions.
The immigration of thousands of Central American children to the U.S. has spiked in recent years. According to, 149,308 Central American minors tried to cross the border from 2020 through 2022. Poverty, violence, and corruption are why some parents feel they have no choice but to send their children on dangerous journeys to the U.S. border alone.
The girls spent several weeks in a house with dark rooms and little food along with other immigrants in Ciudad Juárez—one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico. They then entered the U.S. through El Paso, Texas, and were picked up by an acquaintance of their mother’s in the United States. When the girls arrived at the shelter in Guatemala roughly a month later, counselors there quickly realized the children were not aware of what had happened to their mother. “Where’s my mom?... I did what my mommy told me to do,” a deportation case worker recalled Valeria saying. Since their biological father was dead, the girls were eventually sent to the house of their uncle, their late father’s brother.
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