Nazario spent nearly five years reporting about migrants in Nuevo Laredo. She spent time shadowing him there and hearing about his remarkable trip north. Nazario reconstructing on and writing Enrique's Journey. After doing months of research, she met the book's Enrique, a then 16-year-old illegal immigrant, at a shelter fructed Enrique's dangerous trek from Honduras to the U.S. by making the same 3,000-mile round-trip journey, much of it on top of 7 freight trains, up the length of Mexico. She then retraced his journey a second time. Each trip took three months.
Nazario has continued to cover Central American migration and unaccompanied minors in her opinion column for The New York Times, and to post other coverage of unaccompanied minors making the journey north on her website.[4][5]
