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He became his mother\u2019s partner in maintaining the home and earning wages in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have money,\u201d he said; \u201cwhat we had, as they say, was hunger.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tAlthough Juan has spent his adult life working in the United States, crossing over the border at the age of 15 to find work, he remained close to his mother. So when she died last November back in Mexico, the 53-year-old carpenter said he got drunk after work at a friend\u2019s house in Marshall, Texas. Heading home, he grazed a tree. He scratched his Chevy Malibu, and the accident earned Juan a drunk driving charge. By his June 18 court date, Juan said he had made several payments on a US$1,500 fine. As he left the courthouse, he was planning on starting classes and 140 hours of community service that would complete his obligations under his sentence. 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Like millions of Mexican men, he lived separate from his wife and children, who remain in Mexico while the fathers live and work in the US in order to earn enough to support them. His arrest, ironically, fell on Father\u2019s Day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tJuan told Human Rights Watch at a migrant reception center in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, that when he first went to the US, he found jobs in Texas and Louisiana, harvesting watermelon, tending horses \u2013 work he\u2019d learned in Mexico \u2013 and raising turkeys. He moved on to laying cable for television in Georgia and working as a framer on building projects in Tennessee. In Marshall, he said he became a high-end carpenter, doing finish work and building furniture on his own, which he proudly shows in photos on his phone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tThis wasn\u2019t the first time he had been deported. 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