DALLAS — Carlos Joaquin Salinas is finally becoming the person he dreamt he’d be. Someone respected. Someone his mother is proud of.
Monthly he sends at least $200 in remittances to his family more than 1,800 miles away in Guatemala. Lately, he’s sending a few extra dollars to the local church and for the new road into town. When work is plentiful, which is usually the case six to seven days a week in North Texas, he even donates to the youth soccer club.
“Señor,” he said, sipping a Topo Chico, with a huge grin, and three-day stubble beard, “my mom says everyone back home is saying good things about me.”
