Illegal immigration to the United States is a severe issue for all of the parties involved in the process. The migrants have to go through serious trials in search of the American dream, in the desire to reunite with families, or to be at the place where they can afford food and shelter. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current immigration system and discuss possible solutions to emerging problems, integrating Sonia Nazario’s book Enrique’s Journey into the analysis. Enrique’s Journey raises substantial obstacles and describes the harsh reality that the migrants from Central America face on their journey to the US, traveling across Mexico. The major character of the book, Enrique, was left by his mother in early childhood, who, with the help of a smuggler, went to America to be able to support her children financially. It is terrifying to read about such a painful life story of a family, realizing that there are numerous families like that one in real life. The feeling that children get by being abandoned by their parents, the inner fights that parents have as they are unable to keep their promises about reunion touch one’s heart sincerely. Enrique had a problematic life, changing his family members’ houses, not experiencing a mother’s love, which made him a rival and developed a drug addiction in the boy (Nazario 32). Besides showing the dangers and fears of migration, the book represents the outcomes of the separation from parents. One might mention that one of the significant characters in the book was Enrique’s uncle Marco, who, unfortunately, did not stay in the boy’s life for a long time. With the appearance of Marco, there was a light in Enrique’s future. He experienced love and care, which he hadn’t seen before from his family. Death of his uncle became another loss in Enrique’s life, and later, he stopped believing Lourdes’, his mother, promises that she will come for Christmas, which strengthened the emotional distance between them. The boy started having the idea that he should go and find his mom in the US (Nazario 28). Numerous losses, unacceptance of his fate, rivalry, and resentment became inseparable from Enrique. Having a family of his own already, Enrique took numerous attempts in crossing the border to the US, before succeeding. On his way the boy saw the beatings, robberies, corruption of the police, savagery of the gangs, dangers of traveling on the trains, the unfairness of the smugglers, harassment over other migrants. The whole horror that the migrants have to face can be observed in a straightforward phrase of the author, “the robbery has turned into blood spot” (Nazario 46). Enrique’s Journey portrays the full picture of the immigration, introduces many characters, like those who suffer from the immigration police, those who are the merciless gang members, or those who are just kids. The issue of immigration has been raised in various articles and researches. Although it is difficult to identify the precise number, the population of unauthorized immigrants who live on the territory of the US is high. According to Warren (2), there were about 11 million illegal immigrants, from whom the more considerable part came from Mexico