Salon.com > Ravi Kumar http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New in town: Nepalis join the Latin trek to America http://www.salon.com/2012/07/31/new_guys_on_the_border_nepalis_join_the_latin_trek_to_america_salpart/ http://www.salon.com/2012/07/31/new_guys_on_the_border_nepalis_join_the_latin_trek_to_america_salpart/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:38:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12968449 NEW YORK — Tashi vividly remembers the two black Customs and Border Patrol helicopters that hovered over Arizona desert’s blue sky two years ago, marring the first moments of his American dream. It had been nine days since he left Nepal, a journey that took him by plane to Guatemala, then overland by van and finally on foot to Mexico across the US border.

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Now it seemed the long journey was about to end. His jeans were covered in desert sand. His shirt reeked of dust and sweat. There, in the desert outside of Tucson, Ariz., as the border patrol closed in, Tashi saw his childhood dreams of making his fortune in the West disappear.

“I was numb, didn’t know what to do,” he recalled. “ I have never seen anything like this except in movies.”

And then, they got him.

Tashi, 28, asked to withhold his real name because he fears being investigated by immigration authorities. He grew up in a small, remote Himalayan village in the Sagarmatha Zone of northeastern Nepal.

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