416 Nicky Jam (El Salvador, Age 18): English

                       Nicky Jam

Age 18, El Salvador

My Emigration Story

Hello my name is Nicky jam , I am from the country of El Salvador,  I'm 18 years old, I'm a teenager of Chalatenango, my family lived with my mom my dad and my brothers and sister.

Every day of the week my brother and I helped my dad to work in the field and in the afternoon we were going to study, my sister helped my mom in the office of the house and also studying, my family and I always have been poor economically my mom always worried because we did not pass each other we missing anything or nothing, we always support each other to keep going and we were a united and happy family and we always very well educated for we were polite with others.

One day in the morning I told my mom I was thinking I wanted to come and try my luck here in the United States, of course they did not agree because I wanted to financially help her and my brothers and my dad.

       My girlfriend also wanted to come to me because they told me I was going to be alone there and was not going to be with her, my father always told me to lie because it was very dangerous and risky these roads over here, but told them that with support of them or I was not coming because it was my dream to be in united states I comment my family united states here and supported i came                                    

                                                          

        A Saturday morning goodbye to me from all my family and began my journey with the guide and as I was under 18 I had to cross a black point and went back to see my tour group and stayed in a hotel for spend the next night ala morning we spoke to family members who were already elsewhere and we were right, and on the border of Guatemala, for it came with all those who traveled with me as we crossed a river that divided to mexico from there we a ban all night till reaching the capital of mexico, because there rested a while the guides gave us instructions and got a ticket for the bus that would take us till Reynosa Tamaulipas mexico,for reaching that place we stayed there a few days because the next day the guide I buy phones.

                   And there they bought us clothes and other things we needed to walk in the desert and then one day evening went for a walk in the desert for three nights and between days was very hard to walk as having three 2nights in the desert suffering hunger, thirst, cold and headaches as we walked and walked till crossing the desert and then there was waiting emigration on the street because we ran again for tola desert night again and that night seized twelve people in the group and therefore on aM had the street to the other side and the next day in the van that would take us to Houston texas, and since we separated the under eighteen migration took us to a group home where my family took me here to come over here did me some documents sent footprints and I can come.

          Because after I bought the ticket for the plane to San Benito Texas horn Houston Texas, and there take the other horn New York because my aunt was not here because had gone to El Salvador to spend Christmas there with family only had here the her husband and my uncle were those who went to bring me to the airport because the next day was going to go on to El Salvador as well, and just left me here with my uncle because the stick is there to take care of me, for month came my aunt El Salvador and I came to enroll in this school to continue my studies and because I'm getting really wanted to study because I'm in case of migration that I have to attend courts migration… And that's my story of emigration.