By SUMMER HARLOW
Special to The Miami Herald
QUETZALTENANGO, Guatemala -- Wearing an over-sized cowboy hat his father had given him for luck before he left home to migrate -- illegally -- to the United States, 13-year-old Julio Cesar Roca put the finishing touches on a sculpture he was crafting, killing time until his parents could pick him up from a youth deportee shelter in the highlands of Guatemala.
Mexican immigration authorities nabbed Roca just a week after he had set out on the journey north, following the proverbial ``American dream.''
''I had a plan, I was going to sell candy to pay for my journey,'' Roca said. ``I wanted to go to the United States and study. I was going to learn English, get a good job and build a house for my family.'' READ MORE =>
Special to The Miami Herald
QUETZALTENANGO, Guatemala -- Wearing an over-sized cowboy hat his father had given him for luck before he left home to migrate -- illegally -- to the United States, 13-year-old Julio Cesar Roca put the finishing touches on a sculpture he was crafting, killing time until his parents could pick him up from a youth deportee shelter in the highlands of Guatemala.
Mexican immigration authorities nabbed Roca just a week after he had set out on the journey north, following the proverbial ``American dream.''
''I had a plan, I was going to sell candy to pay for my journey,'' Roca said. ``I wanted to go to the United States and study. I was going to learn English, get a good job and build a house for my family.'' READ MORE =>
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