This immigrant is working hard and saving money, but desperately misses his home
Two of Carlos Joaquin’s children are in Guatemala, where he has financed the building of a new home for his family by sending money back from the U.S.
Carlos Joaquin of Santa Rosa, Guatemala, crossed the street with his son Fernando Salinas on the way to a Tornado bus station in El Paso on March 30, 2019, after being released by the Border Patrol to await an asylum hearing.(Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)
Year two.
Carlos Joaquin can’t remember a time he worked so hard, nor a time he longed for home so much. After two years in North Texas waiting for his day in court to argue his case for asylum in the U.S., home beckons.
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West Mesa’s Ja’Calvin Newsom (21) plows through Sandia defenders on his way to a big gain Friday night at Wilson Stadium. Defending on the play is Sandia’s Jordan Rael. (Roberto E. Rosales/Journal)
New Mexico went 66 weeks between high school football seasons, from the final championship game of 2019 to the March 5 start of this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it 2021 spring campaign.
It’ll only be about 20 weeks fingers crossed from the end of this one until the first kickoffs in late August.
There were justifiable doubts that there would even be prep football this spring. The line had been moved so often, it was frustrating and infuriating.