The Opportunity They Never Had

摘要

Maria rojas begged her five brothers to let her go with them to the United States. They all were fed up with stunted corn harvests and the prospect of laboring at the local brickworks in their hometown, Indapara-peo, in western Mexico's rural Michoacan state. But Rojas's brothers refused to take her along, saying she was too young for the dangerous cross-border trek and would only face hardship and discrimination in America.