"Carlos López was 19, unemployed and alone when he arrived...Lopez has struggled hard to achieve the American dream, and he says he does it all for his two daughters...'I don't want them to have to do what I do,' says López, who works seven days a week with little vacation time."

This quotation is taken from http://journalism.emerson.edu/jr610/spring03/cit/eastboston/lopez.html by Kevin Ford.