Chapter 5

"We're not the only illegals at our school. We're everywhere.You just have to look. A lot of the kids here were born elsewhere-Korea,China, India, the Dominican Republic. You can't tell which ones aren't legal. We try to get lost in the landscape of backpacks and book reports. To find us you have to pick up the signals.It might be in class when a teacher asks a personal question, and a kid gets a funny ,pinches look in his eyes. Or some girl doesn't want to give her address to the counselor. We all agree not to notice."-29

I thought that it was really interesting how Nadira refers to all of the illegals as "We." It's as if they are a little club. They know the signals, and they can figure out who is illegal and who isn't.What puzzles me though is that she says that she doesn't know who is illegal and who is legal, but obviously she does. She says how they can pick up the signals and all, but then before that Nadira says that she doesn't know who is illegal and who isn't. What do you think?