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Dear Gabacha: From a lifetime of savings and probably family loans; probably not (simple economics, chica); yes (it’s the risk that goes with paying a stranger thousands of dollars for entering the United States); yes (that’s why they do it again); maybe (probably not the killing, but for sure the imprisonment and maltreatment); hypocrisy (but blame that on the Mexican government, not the people); and because the United States is the greatest damn nation on Earth — after Zacatecas, of course.

 

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