Gilberto Ramirez hoped to give his son a better life in the US. Instead the 13-year-old was killed blocks from his new home
Gilberto Ramirez spent three years in Oakland, California, working long hours pruning trees and grooming lawns with one goal in mind: saving up enough money for his wife and four children back in San Pedro Necta, Guatemala, to come join him.
In March 2016, Ramirez got his wish when his wife, three sons and daughter reunited with him in East Oakland. They joined the fast growing number of Central American immigrants building new lives in the Bay Area, many of whom came escaping violence and poverty in their home countries.
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