Immigration Reform
Pedro Lopez was born in Brooklyn, New York to immigrant parents who fled to the United States from Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution. As a child and well into manhood, Pedro only ever spoke to his parents in spanish, and although he was born in Brooklyn, and after a lifetime of doing so, he acquired an accent similar to that of his father. Mr. Lopez works hard to provide for his family delivering large plants from a large family-owned nursery to large corporate parties in and around the city. He has held onto this job since he was in his teens working during the weekends, weeding and pruning, to help to support his family. He learned everything about the business including learning the names of hundreds of species of plants and flowers, the conditions in which they thrive, and their proper care and handling. He is highly regarded as an expert by his employer and customers and is happy to take a phone call on his time off to handle the questions an...