So far, he has helped more than 40 undocumented workers come to the Dallas area, he says. His actions come at the behest of employers who want more workers...
The job opportunities are such that when he’s not fixing roofs, or working flea markets, he’s mowing lawns from Fort Worth to Frisco, thanks to his new landscaping business. His co-employee: his 14-year-old son, who’s on summer break.
Carlos Joaquin Salinas, of Santa Rosa, Guatamala, at an Annunciation House shelter in El Paso on Saturday, March 30, 2019. The burden often falls on undocumented workers to help with labor shortages, and that leads to migrants recruiting other migrants to come to the U.S., Ruiz said. “To be fair, most of immigration is about personal connections, right?” he said. “Somebody who comes in… and says, ‘I made it, so can you.’ That’s the sort of driving force behind it.”Joaquin could make money by helping migrants come to North Texas, but he has resisted that temptation, he said.
He harbored bitter feelings for smugglers who promised him an easy trip to a country they said needed him, especially if he brought a child with him. He picked Fernando, the eldest of his three children, to make the journey.and told them to run across a busy highway. On the U.S. side, they turned themselves in to the Border Patrol. The agency was so overwhelmed with migrants that border agents held them temporarily under an international bridge surrounded by chain link fences.
“I was depressed” about the delay, Joaquin said. “I was dreaming I was home again. Yes, it’s dangerous there, but I miss living life.” In the U.S., he works seven days a week and said he has “forgotten how to live.”He feels uneasy going out and socializing because he is undocumented, he said. He feels desperate, because he doesn’t know when he’ll ever be able to return to his homeland to see his son and daughter, both pre-teens, and his mother and grandmother.
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