The Undocumented Americans (One World Essentials)

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The first responders were firemen and EMT workers. The second responders were undocumented immigrants.

There are no clowns in fields with machetes, but there are ICE officers who pose as nice people trying to buy a piñata off the Internet, meet you in a parking lot, and detain you. If we get good grades, will you take us to New York City? Is Connecticut near Cleveland? What’s the best college in the whole country? I’m going to go to Harvard. I’ll become an immigration lawyer, like Peter, so nobody’s dad will ever be taken away again.