Miscellaneous
The president of the United States at the time of Luiselli's writing of "Tell Me How It Ends", in some circles referred to as the Deporter in Chief.
Who is "Barack Obama?"
The first question on the Intake Questionnaire for Unaccompanied Migrant Children.
Why did you come to the United States?
The type of legal service that comes at no cost to the client.
What is "pro bono"?
A vocabulary word used to describe things that may span multiple countries.
What is "transnational"?
The city in the US where both Manu and Valeria Luiselli live.
What is Hempstead, Long Island, New York?
Question 6 of the intake questionnaire.
"How did you travel here?"
A term used to refer to an ICE detention center.
What is "la hielera"?
The name of the non-profit organization in which Luiselli worked as a court interpreter.
What is "The Door"?
The countries that make up the Northern Triangle.
What are "Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala"?
The name for the group of women in Veracruz who, years ago, started throwing water bottles and food to migrants aboard La Bestia.
What is "Las Patronas"?
The type of answer choices to be eliminated when following the #AbolishICE ACT Strategy
What are "irrelevant," "contradictory," and "extreme" answer choices?
The program introduced by the Mexican government to surveil and dissuade immigration from the Northern Triangle.
What is "Programa Frontera Sur"?
This word is used to describe being overly concerned with procedure at the cost of efficiency.
What is "bureaucratic"?
This is Manu's city of origin.
What is "Tegucigalpa"?
The power and influence of communities and non-profit organizations, for example.
What is "political capital"?
This is the final question on the Intake Questionnaire for Unaccompanied Migrant Children.
"Who would take care of you if you were to return to your home country?"
DAILY DOUBLE: The official name of the US federal agency responsible for detention/deportations at the border.
Acronym: 400 points
Full Name: 800 points!!
What is "Immigration and Customs Enforcement"?
A type of protection offered to someone who is fleeing persecution, disaster, or violence in their home country.
What is "asylum"?
Question 34 of the Intake Questionnaire, the one that opens "a pandora's box."
"Did you ever have trouble with gangs or crime in your home country?"
DAILY DOUBLE: The name for the solidarity group created by Valeria Luiselli's students at Hofstead University.
Acronym = 400 points
Full name = 800 points
What is "TIIA"?
What is "Teenage Immigrant Integration Association"?
A word to describe the quality of being open to multiple interpretations.
What is "ambiguity"?
The procedure by which child migrants from countries bordering the U.S. are immediately deported without formal proceedings.
What is "voluntary return"?
What is the "priority juvenile docket"?
The leitmotif in Valeria Luiselli's book, as a question posed by her daughter.
or, the idea that the kid's stories have no beginning, middle, or end.
The collection of nonprofit groups that created the questions for the intake questionnaire.
What is "ICARE (Immigrant Children Advocates’ Relief Effort)"?