Block C: Part 2 by https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404 Part 2 quotes, anecdotes, symbols, images en-us 2016-11-28 17:20:09 UTC 2025-10-08 00:36:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140589425 "A lifetime is at stake: If they can't overcome the forces working against them, these teens will lose the dream of a foothold in the middle class. They’ll wind up in low-wage jobs, living in the shadows."

]]> 2016-11-29 17:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140589425 https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140590079 Exel and his sister Lizbeth]]> 2016-11-29 17:40:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140590079 https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140590552 "Still, as he pulled on his soccer cleats one recent afternoon, he acknowledged the dark reality he usually tried to push out of his mind: Some things — maybe the most important things — were out of his control. The uncertainty of his future, of what a judge would decide in his case, gnawed at Exel. He could still be deported. When he talked to his sisters back in Guatemala, the images of his country came rushing back."]]> 2016-11-29 17:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140590552 "This is going to change everything. My dreams are going to come true"— Exel Estrada, Patterson High School student https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140591088 2016-11-29 17:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140591088 https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140591207 "More than 5,300 teenagers have arrived in Maryland in the past two years, mostly from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, according to the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement. "

]]> 2016-11-29 17:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140591207 https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140591926 "'The only issue is that they have raised themselves, practically,” Exel’s mother said through an interpreter. “Sometimes I don’t like their attitude, and I try to correct them, and they say I don’t have the right to correct them.'"

"Such fractured relationships are being repeated for thousands of Latino parents and their recently arrived teens from Central America. Reuniting is so fraught with tension that the parents sometimes wind up kicking their children out, or the children leave on their own."]]> 2016-11-29 17:44:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140591926 https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140592253 2016-11-29 17:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140592253 Songs Dealing with Immigration https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140592293 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRjItDLnAwc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTSLRbm8L9E]]> 2016-11-29 17:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140592293 https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140592665 "Across the state, the four-year graduation rate for immigrant students is 54 percent, or 33 percentage points lower than that of the general population. Even after five years in school, immigrants are far less likely to have graduated."]]> 2016-11-29 17:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140592665 https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140593961 "But in high school, Exel faced a more serious obstacle: gangs that threatened to kill people who were out after 10 p.m. His school let out at 11:30 p.m., because many children had to work during the day."]]> 2016-11-29 17:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140593961 https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140595227 "He acknowledged the dark reality he usually tried to push out of his mind: Some things — maybe the most important things — were out of his control." ]]> 2016-11-29 17:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/140595227 https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/141005200 Immigrants who drop out will cost governments about $89,000 more in services than they pay in taxes, according to a 1997 report by the National Research Council, while immigrants who earn a college degree will contribute $105,000 more than they get in services.


]]> 2016-12-01 03:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/141005200 https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/141005289 “These concentrations of immigrants have strengthened and reinvigorated neighborhoods that were vulnerable,”]]> 2016-12-01 03:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dbiel/k1tredr1i404/wish/141005289