Mario Sanchez was 22 and living in poverty in La Palma, Mexico, helping to support his parents and five brothers and sisters, when he entered the United States illegally in 1988, and found a job at an Oakland scrap-metal company. Five years later, he returned to Mexico, married his childhood sweetheart and paid a smuggler $1,000 to bring them back across the border. Today, Sanchez, 43, works as a forklift operator to support his wife and their three U.S. citizen children and his diabetic father, a legal resident. Read More »