Bust of gang offers hope for Dodge City immigrants
DODGE CITY, KAN. -- The scars on Jose Aguilar’s hands are pretty standard stuff for a man who’s made a rough living carving up cattle.
He dismisses them as “nada” — nothing.
It’s the mark on his scalp, where he was clubbed with a tire iron, that leaves a lasting mark on his psyche.
Aguilar is like so many immigrant workers in town who provide easy prey for American born-and-bred Latino gang bangers.
He’s in the country illegally. He speaks virtually no English. He is, he says, essentially illiterate even in Spanish. Many of his fellow Guatemalan expatriate slaughterhouse workers don’t use banks, consequently carrying and stashing cash — drawing robbers like ants to a picnic. They’re also smaller than just about everybody else in Dodge City. And they tend not to call the cops.
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