Blog 10

In the article “The Children Will Keep Coming” published in Nation Company, author Oscar Martinez talks about how there was this gang who killed a 11 year old boy for not joining there gang because he did not want to be a member of the ranks. Although the gang members request children at young ages because they are more likely to get away from the police. Every day in El Salvador 7 to 8 people are killed by gang members. About 38 percent of the murders in the country every year are from ages 15 and 24. Most of the families pay the gang members to say in an apartment, that they have taken over. A the youngest that the gangs have recruited children are form ages 8 and 9 years old. The gang known as (El Salvador as Barrio 18). Most of the kids who are in school have to be searched by the police before entering a class room. These three boys who want to leave El Salvador to come to the United States right after seeing their mom shot and killed by the gangs. They feel the safest place to be is in the United States. Most kids flee their homes because of the violence in there city to come to the US hopeing to have a better life. But some of the migrants went over to join gangs in California. Canto 14 the newer gang in Southern California. In the US we offer jobs to lower educate people over 5,000 jobs in the US. This one man whose name is Jose is really good at getting people over the border and is coasting each person to pay $7,500 per person. He also made a book about it. If a mother or father sees their children coming to the US and more and more until you have as much as 52,000 coming over and the government sees a pattern over and over, they will boot you back home. Even though family who do try and get there children out of El Salvador they won’t stop trying until their children are safe.

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When I read this article I thought it was more interesting than I thought it would be. Even though I had no idea they used children at 8 to 9 of age to get away with things. I know from watching cops and gangs on True TV that they talk about things like this, but mostly only gangs. That’s when I heard the voice from TV talking in my head about this kind of involvement in Mexico and the United States. I was shocked that a gang or gangs can take over a city I would think the police would have done something to prevent this but I guess they have more things to worry about. I can definitely understand why children want to leave and come over to the United States rather live in El Salvador. What I thought was crazy nuts and cool at the same time is that this guy Jose helps kids and whoever to cross over the border and make it to the US and has a published book about it too that’s awesome! I knew a guy from school who was born in California but his mom and dad didn’t have their green card. They came over illegal and when I was in 11^th grade his mom and dad got deported and can’t come back over to the United States so that really sucks.