Impressions gathered by Steve Blodner

Tuesday, April 26, 2005


Maria Guadalupe Sanchez, of Cameron Park, is a data collector for the University of Texas at Brownsville. She grew up in Matamoros and then moved with her husband in the eighties to live in a trailer in Texas and work as a migrant worker. "There was no light," she says. "A neighbor would run an electric cord past one trailer through to the other. One house gave water to fifteen people." She and her husband, Sergio, finally moved into a new home in 1998. Sergio works for Amfels, an oil rig builder, and one of their daughters dreams of going to medical school.