Caravans Break the Clandestine
by Daniela Castro
Given the political climate surrounding the border wall, caravans, and detention centers, the media is exposing us to manifestations of physical attempts to ostracize the influx of immigrant populations from Latin America. Central America has been continuously overlooked by the United States, despite the decades of interventionism and economic exploitation that have created the state of deprivation and political eruption it currently experiences. This very refusal to assume responsibility has been the catalyst for mothers to flee and for migrant children to pursue a path to the United States, often unguided, in the hopes that they can at least find a maternal figure in their American Dream. Given the state of this issue, I wanted to create several poems, with a focus on one Central American nation: Honduras. One of my poems focuses on the state of the country, while the other poems take different perspectives of children in relation to the path of migration, both epidemiologically, and in respect to the morality of this continuous cycle.
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