Consider leaving behind all you own, everyone you know, and everyone you love. Confronted with the prospect of traversing half of a continent on foot, atop freight trains, and inside truck trailers. Crossing wild rivers via swimming. Illegal border crossing. Crossing the Arizona desert on foot. Being robbed, shot at, and beaten. Raped. Getting through it all. After a life in the lowest sections of Central America, crossing into the United States of America. Succeeding. Now. You don't belong, either legally or socially, in the "promised" land. You are unable to communicate in the language. Nobody knows you've come, nobody knows you're even there. Consider yourself to be... nothing. Then consider having a bag slung over your head. Being stripped of your clothing. Thrown into a small room with a dozen other people. A loaded firearm is pointing directly at your head. You are compelled to contact home and plead for money in exchange for your life.
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Consider leaving behind all you own, everyone you know, and everyone you love. Confronted with the prospect of traversing half of a continent on foot, atop freight trains, and inside truck trailers. Crossing wild rivers via swimming. Illegal border crossing. Crossing the Arizona desert on foot. Being robbed, shot at, and beaten. Raped. Getting through it all. After a life in the lowest sections of Central America, crossing into the United States of America. Succeeding. Now. You don't belong, either legally or socially, in the "promised" land. You are unable to communicate in the language. Nobody knows you've come, nobody knows you're even there. Consider yourself to be... nothing. Then consider having a bag slung over your head. Being stripped of your clothing. Thrown into a small room with a dozen other people. A loaded firearm is pointing directly at your head. You are compelled to contact home and plead for money in exchange for your life.
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