Julia is writing an essay comparing "Children of the Drug Wars" and Enrique's Journey . She writes this topic sentence. Student Work Both Nazario’s editorial and her biography bear witness to her background research. Which sentences from the texts best provide evidence to support this idea? Choose three correct answers.
Answer
A
"Judges, who currently deny seven in 10 applications for asylum by people who are in deportation proceedings, must better understand the conditions these children are facing."
B
"Of course, many migrant children come for economic reasons, and not because they fear for their lives. In those cases, they should quickly be deported if they have at least one parent in their country of origin."
C
"Countries neighboring Syria have absorbed nearly 3 million people. Jordan has accepted in two days what the United States has received in an entire month during the height of this immigration flow—more than 9,000 children in May."
D
"Two of [the migrants] are too frightened to go into town. They offer Enrique 20 pesos and ask him to buy food. If he will bring it back, they will share it with him."
E
"In Guatemala, soda is called agua. Here in Mexico, agua is water. A jacket is a chamarra, not a chumpa. A T-shirt is a playera, not a blusa."