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DESCRIPTION:Event @ the World Affairs Council, 3/9  What: “Enrique's Journey: The 
 Story of Illegal Immigrants Migrating to the US"  Who: Sonia Nazario, a 
 projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times, who has spent more than two 
 decades reporting on social and immigration issues; author of the book, 
 Enrique's Journey and the six-part newspaper series which won the Pulitzer 
 Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for International 
 Reporting, and the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards.  
  Event: More than 48,000 children enter the U.S. from Central America and 
 Mexico each year, illegally and without either of their parents. Many are 
 seeking to be reunited a parent.  In her new book, award-winning journalist 
 Sonia Narario's documents the plight of Enrique, one of the thousands of 
 Central American children who every year make harrowing journeys on the 
 tops and sides of freight trains through Mexico to reunify with parents 
 --usually mothers-- who left them behind to find higher-paying jobs in the 
 U.S.  Her book, a culmination of five years of research and first-hand 
 investigation into children's immigration from Latin America, includes 
 interviews in the U.S., Honduras, Mexico, and Guatemala with 
 immigrant-rights advocates, shelter works, academics, medical workers, 
 government officials and police officers as well as priests and nuns who 
 minister to immigrants.  She also interviewed children at four INS 
 detention centers in California and Texas and two shelters in Tijuana and 
 Mexicali, Mexico.  When: Thursday, March 9; Check In: 5:30 PM,   Program: 
 6:00 PM  Where: World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter St., 2nd Floor Conference 
 Room, San Francisco  Admission Costs: Council members: FREE; Students w/ 
 ID: $5; Non-members: $15  Info: (415) 293-4600, info@wacsf.org, 
 http://www.itsyourworld.org  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/15/88113.php
SUMMARY: “Enrique's Journey: The Story of Illegal Immigrants Migrating to the US" @ Worl
LOCATION:World Affairs Council   312 Sutter St., 2nd Floor Conference Room  San 
 Francisco  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/15/88113.php
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