Children of immigrants arrive through refugee program
9/14/2016 (Boston area)- MA - Manuel Perez, cq, center, is a refugee from El Salvador. He moved to the Boston area two months ago and joined his mother and two younger brothers ), who were raised in the United States. Topic: 15refugee. Story by Maria Sacchetti/Globe Staff. Dina Rudick/Globe Staff.
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Manuel Perez (center), a refugee from El Salvador, moved to the Boston area two months ago, joining his mother and two younger brothers.
By Maria Sacchetti Globe Staff September 30, 2016
She was 5 years old when her mother left their tin-roofed house in the mountains of El Salvador, promising to come back. She never did, and in school other students picked on the little girl whose mother disappeared. “Your mother isn’t here,” they taunted her. “Your mother doesn’t love you.”
On the telephone, Rosi begged her mother, who was now in Boston, to send for her, even if it meant smuggling her across the southern border illegally. But her mother refused to send her daughter on that risky trip. She told her daughter she would find a way to bring her to the United States legally.
Fifteen years later, she did.
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