Kat Gale’s Reviews > Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions > Status Update

"Why did you come to the United States?" I ask children in immigration court.Their answers point to push factors-the unthinkable circumstances the children are fleeing: extreme violence, prosecution and coercion by gangs, mental and physical abuse, forced labor, neglect, abandonment. It's not even the American Dream they pursue, but rather the modest aspiration to wake up from the nightmare into which they were born.