My Latin gardener has "disappeared."

[Wonder Why]

25. I feel sorry for everyone, particularly migrants. But reread the original post. What was expressed and what wasn't

about the situation in the post?

There was sympathy because he came from the same country.
He worked hard.
He made the place be the envy of the neighborhood.
His business started growing.
He suddenly disappeared.
They knew a little about his family.

Did they know his last name? Where he lived? Where his business was? Did he have a business name? Did they check with other landscapers to find out more about what might have happened to him? I don't know from the post.

40 years ago when we lived in southern NM in a rural area, a young newly married "undocumented" couple stopped by looking for work. I told him we didn't own a farm but pointed out some people who he could talk to. My wife and I talked and decided we could have them help us for the day and paid them well over the minimum wage so they would have some cash. At the end of the day, they asked if they could sleep by our house for safety. We told them "No Way", made our two sons temporarily share a bedroom, fed the couple and put them up overnight. The next morning after breakfast, we again pointed out where to go and told them they would always be welcomed back.
A year later, the man came by alone. Se stayed at home with their first child so we told him to stop by on his way home as we had plenty of clothes or kids had outgrown. He did on his return and we gave him what we had. The next year, he came by again alone and said he now had a couple of kids. He said he wouldn't be able to come by again and we wished each other well. We never saw him again. We had their names but they were moving and he never wrote.

I mention this because I do care. I cared about them, not the work they did for me.

I am not criticizing the OP. He may have done just as much and probably more and does care. But I don't see it in his post and possibly Prairie Gates didn't either.