Amidst the nightmare immigration crisis at the southern border, it is easy to forget the American dream that lives among these desperate people. A dream of a better life in the United States, just like the Irish in the late 1800s, the Italian wave in the 1900s, the Jews in the 1930s, all escaping war, dictatorship and poverty in their native countries.
Amidst the nightmare immigration crisis at the southern border , it is easy to forget the American dream that lives among these desperate people. A dream of a better life in the United States, just like the Irish in the late 1800s, the Italian wave in the 1900s, the Jews in the 1930s, all escaping war, dictatorship and poverty in their native countries. For Mexico, the great journey north began in the 1920s during and after a civil war made famous by Pancho Villa.
My great uncles, General Fidel and Paz Avila rode with Villa. The war cost them the family ranch in Chihuahua state and led my grandmother Juanita to move to El Paso three months after she married Antonio Gallardo. They were Mama and Papa to all of us grandkids, creating a legacy that has prospered in just two generations here in the U.S. "They wanted to be an American success story, and they were," says Denise Gallardo Avila, my cousin. In 1925, Antonio and Juanita piled into Papa’s Model T Ford and crossed the borde
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