Saturday, March 15, 2008, 3:00:00 AM
To stay or not to stay
By Stephanie Creech | Daily Times Senior Writer
Maximino Alarcón Suárez left the Ursulo Galvan Colony in Xico, Veracruz, in 2005 bound for the United States.
Suarez and four other people from the village walked for three days and three nights. With the help of a "coyote," a person illegal immigrants pay to help them cross the border, they eventually made it to America. The coyote charged them $1,300 each.
Suárez spent the next two and one-half years washing dishes and doing kitchen prep work in multiple restaurants in Las Vegas, Nev., and saved the $16,000 needed to build a house for his family back in their rural mountain village. [Read more]
No comments:
Post a Comment