Nick Ramos, currently owner of an electrical company in Kerrville and pastor of a local Spanish Baptist Church, took a long and winding road from the mountains of Mexico into the United States and to his current home in Kerrville.
He was a teenaged resident of a village in the mountains of Oaxaca, 300 miles south of Mexico City, when he decided he had to come to the U.S. to have a future, he said.
âI left when I was 14 years old to come to the United States with a friend and a relative, in the late 1970s, and we crossed into California as illegals,â he said.
desk in honor of my late mother, educator known as daughter of africa. she would be so pleased to know a young girl in malawi has a chance to shine. nick ramos, who is now working in the-hour with brian williams tweeted, for all years i worked in the last word, i loved getting to work on the kind fund lawrence started with you know receive and msnbc helping school kids in malawi. you can help this giving tuesday just like i did. thanks, nick. there are still over 2 million kids in malawi classrooms who do not have desks, so we have a long way to go. you can go to last word desks.msnbc.com and unicef will send that person a notification of the gift you have given in their name. you can also provide scholarships for girls to attend high school in malawi where, like many african countries,
prayers. sources tell wjz, robinson may have been treated for a severe gall bladder attack and is recovering in intensive care. brooks robinson played his entire career here in baltimore. he was inducted in the hall of fame. wjz will keep you updated on any information we other learn. a prominent businessman, missing handgun, all in the middle of an investigation and where that weapon is tonight. wjz is live. mike hellgren investigates, the connection that has led to the officer being investigated. mike? police want to know why the police major s weapon was in possession of that business owner. and published reports now say that weapon was loaded. reporter: major anthony brown, a high-ranking member of baltimore s police force, have had his police powers taken away. while the department investigates how his personal weapon wound up in the office, a prominent and politically connected businessman named nick ramos, owns the business in southeast baltimore. according t
like this. to the make a point right? this guy, nick ramos, wanted to bring some attention to the rising costs of college tuition and it is a lot, paying more than $14,000 in $1 bills. unbelievable. how about that? first of all, how risky it was walking around town with that much money. a duffel bag that kind of money. he said toad go to several different banks. i m sure. nobody wants to give you all that in single singles. so i wonder what his point was? i just think his point was it costs too much to go to college and . you really don t see the figures until you see the singles. you see $14,000 in singles, i would think you are like, wow, look at all this money, crazy, heavy. they said we will collect that $14,000. thank you very much. sure they were happy. lowering your tuition he used a 50-crept piece and a penny. get the change in there. sometimes you travel and get to a city and say i love this place, could i live here, people
16, 17, still illegal and they agreed to the meetings. you actually followed through? somebody who did say it depends on what you mean by follow through. the meeting. yeah. then what happened? we ended up getting a call from a guy who said he was representing a high-rolling client, a former ceo out of north carolina, we told them we were in georgia, we said, well, we will give you $30,000, the guy wants to spend the week with us, come up to north carolina, sent us pictures of this check that was waiting for me if i went and so we ended up following the bait and went up to north carolina and you will see in the documentary what ends up happening but a lot, just from one ad, countless phone calls, and a proposal to be trafficked two states away. clearly this has to be very frustrating for law enforcement, too, now talking about a public dough main on the internet, people are meeting or making a first connection it is difficult for police to follow or nab or follow up even, is