After reading “Enrique’s Journey,” I was impressed by the amount of ideas for potential stories about circumstances or secondary characters in the book. Among the ideas that I think would make beautiful stories are profiles about all the characters that somehow helped migrants during their journey to the north, because thanks to their personal sacrifice and vocation many lives have been (and are) saved.
Although the stories about all these characters were superficially covered by Sonia Nazario in the book, the richness of their lives and how they fit in the immigration issue make me think that a more profound version of their stories would be a very educational and moving project.
The stories of Olga Sanchez Martinez, director of a hospice that assists injured migrants, or father Leo from Nuevo Laredo, aside from the people who threw food and water to the trains, are clear examples that oasis of humanity exist in the solitary and inclement journey to the U.S. The reasons that lead all these people to dedicate their lives to helping immigrants and their valuable opinions about different aspects of the immigration issue make these potential stories very interesting.
While it is evident that the richness of these potential stories makes them attractive for print media, the vast variety of visual elements in all of them also convince me that a story with photo essays or at least some video clips could be developed. Even though I never liked the journalistic ideology of “if it bleeds, it leads,” I admit that the numerous strong images that could be compiled about these migrants and how they’re helped by good Samaritans would be unique and fascinating.
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