Posted on 03/17/2017 5:06:19 PM PDT by SJackson
The smell of slow-cooked Texas barbecue wafted over the outskirts of San Salvador as Jose Reyes cracked open another beer. It was Super Bowl Sunday, and Reyes had gathered with several dozen friends in a parking lot outside a stadium where the game would be screened. Dressed in baggy NFL and college jerseys, they traded jokes in English between bites of pulled pork and hamburgers.
Reyes was deported from the United States in 2001 after serving a prison sentence for wounding two people in a shooting in Houston when he was 17. His mother had brought him to the U.S. as a baby, and when he stepped off an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in El Salvador, he had no recollection of the country of his birth.
Now he is 39 and thriving as a manager at an English-language call center that takes questions from AT&T customers in the United States. He and his friends, other U.S. deportees also working in call centers, earn well over El Salvador's minimum wage.
Among the Central Americans caught in a decades-long cycle of migration and deportation, Reyes is one of the more fortunate ones.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
WELL SAID!
is delivered like, he was punished for coloring outside the lines?
They was only just wounded...
Left wing propaganda at its finest from our pals at the L.A. Times.
Lots of tugging at the heartstrings.
Anyone think that the homies in the article (at the end) really stood for the Star Spangled Banner?
You know, because I have this spare bridge that I need to sell...
MS-13 drug money.
What liberals do not talk about is that those countries are absolutely horrible for women. The abuses in El Salvador are horrible.
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