Authors who write about undocumented children have to contend with accurately portraying immigration policies though they are constantly changing.
“When I was in school, I never read a book that had a Latina protagonist that had a Latino story at the center of it, much less so that had an undocumented Mexican Latina protagonist at the center of it,” she noted. “That made me feel lonely.”
Perkins’s story follows two small children named Maria and Juan as they head to the California-Tijuana border with their mother to celebrate La Posada Sin Fronteras, a nine-day festival that is celebrated just before Christmas in many Latin American countries. The holiday is the only time all year that the children can see their grandmother, who lives on the Tijuana side of the border.
“At different times, they were able to meet and hug and come together and they could actually touch each other,” said Perkins. “But now the rules are such that they can only pinky touch if that.”
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