by the El Reportero’s news services
A journalist and a writer, both Mexicans who have lived many years in Colorado, present the “forgotten children” of immigration in the United States with a work written in both English and Spanish, and which gathers together the testimonies of immigrants’ children.
Their book Broken: La Cara Infantil de la Inmigración/The Forgotten Children of Immigration, launched this week, tells 18 immigration stories that have as their leading characters children who have suffered the deportation of one or both of their parents, as one of its authors, journalist German González, told Efe.
“The intention of these stories is to inform people about the terrible problems that millions of children and their families are going through, as well as to raise awareness among the political class so that once and for all they pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul that stops families from being broken up,” writer Arturo García added.
By means of contacts in Denver and surrounding areas, González and García managed to win the confidence of a number of immigrants and their children, so that finally close to 20 of those families allowed their kids to tell their stories.
González believes these stories echo “broken voices that reveal the sad reality that enshrouds these youngsters as a result of the implacable deportations” of parents “without papers.”
According to the Executive Office for Immigration Review, an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, some 5,200 cases of deportation or removal of immigrants were processed in Colorado in the year 2013, while around 7,500 cases are still pending.
For González, these statistics “do not show us the human side of history,” something that can only be achieved “by listening to the cries of the children.”
Singer Luz Ríos and husband welcome baby boy
Mexican singer Luz Ríos gave birth to her first child – Benjamin – in Upland, California on Oct. 23, representatives of the artist announced Monday.
Benjamin Raymond Carpenter is “the one who lit up my life and my heart,” said the singer in a communique.
The first child of Ríos and husband Richard Carpenter, the executive producer of LCR Registros Inc., which he founded along with the singer, was born in San Antonio Community Hospital in Upland.
The singer received two Latin Grammy nominations in 2009 for her album “Aire” in the best new artist and best female pop vocal album categories.
The album’s same-named single, a duet that Ríos sang with countryman Joan Sebastian, also received the Billboard Latino Music nomination for Hot Latin Song of the Year.
