New California resident/illegal immigrant Jose Arboles recently escaped his native land of Baja Mexico in order to start a new career. The decision came two months earlier when he couldn't feed his wife and 8 children from the money he made selling dried mangos and bananas to tourists in Tiajuana. Jose told his family, "Necesito huir esta paiz porque es imposible para hacer dinero aqui. Yo se` que si yo trabajare` en los Estados Unidos yo puedo hacer mucho dinero que aqui." (I need to flee this country because it is impossible to make money here. I know that if I work in the U.S. I can make more money than [I can] here.)
7 weeks ago Jose made the jump and escaped his native land of mexico. Initially Jesus was worried about finding a job, but whilst waiting on the illegal immigrant employment bench a gringo approached him in a landscaping truck, uttered a few strange words, looked him up and down, and grabbed Jose for work. Jose knew this was an opportunity of a lifetime and worked harder than he has ever worked in his life for 12 hours straight, of which at the end of the day he was paid the most he's ever been paid in his life, 50 dollars. His good work didn't go unnoticed and he was asked to come back to work the following day.
Jose is currently employed with Nick's Landscaping and lives happily in the slum huts with his fellow illegal brethren. He sends home 80 percent of his earnings in hopes to someday pay for his family to come to the promise land where his wife may work as a housecleaner and his kids can join the local gang.
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