A Risk Worth Taking
To be able to read a book such as La Linea and gain a better and realistic understanding of the illegal immigration into the United States and the difficulties of the risky journey that people who do decide to travel face. Miguel and his sister undertake a journey to be reunited with their parents. With understanding that the journey was going to be dangerous and risky, the young children and the help of Javier, experience robbing, escaping the police, and many other things. What I have gained from this novel is a better understanding. To be clearer, I strongly feel that the immigration system is extremely wrongfully judged because of some people’s words and actions towards the situation. I have heard many opinions when it comes to illegal immigrants entering the United States and their reasoning behind it. Ones such as they are criminals coming to destroy the US, or they are trying to cheat their way into the system. Even things such as they don’t belong here, it is our state. ...