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Celaya mexico weather feel7/25/2023 ![]() It got late so he said we have to sleep here. It was like it gets late like five or six o clock. ![]() By the time we came from my town, it was like two hours to the border. P- No we were walking behind the immigration office or the patrol office. No, mientras I’m sorry his brother take us to the border. And then we just came to the border, in this car… we would take turns under the seat, hiding under the seat. The guy was waiting for us in front of the house, the coyote. So she made me like almost twenty burritos, a big bag, and my cousin goes I just told you we don’t need we’re ok we need to go. Don’t do that let me quick make you some food. My cousin goes no it’s going to be late, it’s going to be late. She said are you serious he wants to go over there… ok …God bless you! So my mom said ok if you’re going right now you need to wait I have to make you some burritos. (Laughs) So I had to ask my mom to see if it was fine. But one of them was our real cousin but the other lady he said I am going to take her I am going to marry her. I used to have another cousin that he said this lady is coming with us and the other lady too you know two girls coming with us. So I said let me think about it you know. P- No in Arizona, it’s San Miguel because it is the border with this side. He was from the border he was from the reservation, the Indian reservation. Yeah there’s this guy that he needs money too. He said “Yeah just grab something you know your shoes or whatever let’s go right now.” He surprised me. He said, “Hey let’s go to Phoenix now!” I said “What”. I was eighteen and October 5 th was when I crossed the border and I turned nineteen here.ĭid anyone from your family come with you? I turned nineteen here when I came from Mexico. So when I turned eighteen I decided to go to the United States. P- We would have to sell them to trucks from big cities they would come from two, three hours away. We used to grow watermelons, cotton and wheat. P- Yeah, when I grew up when I was thirteen or fourteen we started growing in our own land. After that you have to go pick cotton in the sacks the old fashion way. During summer vacation, we would have to go to pick cucumbers. I used to work you know at the age of thirteen. His family had a bunch of farmland.ĭid you have a lot of brothers and sisters that also had to work? M- He’s from a farm town he had to work hard on the farm with his brothers and sisters. P- When you’re little you don’t worry about it. So that’s why he kind of hesitates because if you Google Altar Sonora you will see the issues with it. It is close to the border and it’s just a good stopping ground before they met up with whoever is crossing. ![]() And so now where before it was just a small farm ranch town, very peaceful where he grew up. That is their hub stop before they cross into the US. M- He would have been very proud if you asked him maybe 15- 20 years ago but the reason that he hesitates now is that Altar is a hub for a lot of Central American immigrants. P- Sonora, in the north of Mexico in the city of Altar. ![]()
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