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Immigration Nation - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Powerlessness; family at ICE's mercy
    - - Demoralized; Broken down in ICE detention facility for asylum seekers (really a prison)
        
        Prison uniforms
        
        Cramped room with many beds
        
        Watchtower and guards posted everywhere
        
        All by design; Make the process as grueling and suffocating as possible, to force them into deportation, rather than suffering a mental breakdown
        
        Phone time that is pay only
      - Wife and children who came live in Guatemala
        
        His eldest Son, US citizen: Emilio, lives with his sister Irene, also undocumented and a mother
        
        Reliant on Emilio's good behavior at school, she ultimately decides to give him up to foster care, as his absence from school and tendency to get into fights puts her at risk of loosing her daughter; her daughter, her direct blood, takes priority over the son of her brother
        
        Emilio is acting out out of desperation; his father is in the US but detained, while his mother and siblings are all back in Guatemala; he feels alone and without guidance
        
        Rebecca depends on remittances to send their children to school and support their life in Guatemala
    - - Police officer from El Salvador
      - Provided insight on gangs to LA detective; fled with family after gang threats
      - Family: Wife (Xiomara), Son (Vladi), Daughter (Karla)
        
        Vladi came at 9, crossing Rio Grande
        
        Karla
      - Still deported, despite self admittance to ICE, work permit, and reasonable fear of life
        
        Vladi: Angered by unforgivable injustice; faith in US forever broken
        
        Will disregard father's wishes, dropping school to help family
        
        Most agents not bad apples; problem is system, not the people running it (keeps cool head)
        
        After all: Most of us are invaders, not natives
        
        Wife: Law does not discriminate, criminal or not; despairing on how will pay bills
        
        Karla: Heartbroken; hides it from everyone
  - - - “ As harsh as it may sound- the government didn’t hire me for my moral views. “