When I read this book, I felt as if I had a review, like general culture, something you hear on the radio or see on the news, something that is not normal, but you are used to it. I can’t imagine what a foreigner might think or feel as they read through the violence surrounding the country. As a Mexican woman, things like la Bestia, Los Zetas, Enrique Peña, and “Build the Wall” are familiar terms. So much so that we even make jokes about them (SARCASM).

One of the facts that I didn’t know and impressed me the most is that the children who identify as Mexican do not go through a degrading immigrant process in the United States. Moreover, they could be deported without a second thought.
Almost as if they meant… Oh, you are Mexican? No worries, we don’t have time. We know about all the violence you experienced, but you literally have no chance of getting a permit even if you are MORE discriminated against or harmed in this country. Go behind the line again, Go start over, Go on  keep suffering behind it. That exact same line they drew when they stole more than half of the Mexican territory.

In 1848, the United States “took” more than half of Mexico’s territory. Through the so-called Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the current states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Texas, as well as parts of Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma, all of which today belong to the United States, belonged to Mexico until the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. And, what I find most ironic is how they call the Mexicans “aliens,” the ones they deport from their supposed country. By what right do they have the power to return these aliens to Mexico when they were the first aliens who invaded the territory.