Gimenez, who paid 3,000 dollars to a smuggling gang to help get him across the border in Arizona in 2003, sends back 400 dollars a month to his wife and two children in Mexico.
His salary of just over 1,400 dollars a month is roughly 10 times what he would earn for the same job in Mexico.
"I would love to go back and live in Mexico but I can only make money here," Gimenez said.
"For me the important thing about the legislation is if I can visit my country or bring my family here legally without the danger of them having to try and cross the border."