“You come here thinking of your kids, but the process changes you. You’re transformed, and sometimes you can’t get out of that place. Some people never knew their fathers. They have traumas from childhood, from the crossing, and they don’t know how to handle those problems but they can buy a Corona.” Soon, he started spending all of his time in bars, leaving them at dawn and going straight to work after. He’d send money home and spend the rest on alcohol. He was consumed by guilt.
