Follows unaccompanied child migrants on their journey through Mexico as they try to reach the United States.

Poems describe the experiences of young Central Americans as they leave the dangers of their own countries to undertake the risky journey north to seek relative safety in the United States.

The sheer number of Central American children coming to the United States who are not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian and who lack proper immigration documents is raising complex and competing sets of humanitarian concerns and immigration control issues. Adults and families from the same three countries -- El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras -- have also been coming in increasing numbers over the same period. Current law provides that unaccompanied...