Photographed by Samantha Sais/Beyond the Border
Translation and Dubbing by Devlin Houser

Julio Bonilla, an undocumented immigrant, now works in New York City, where he has found a new life for himself, his wife and his American-born daughter.

Bonilla, 46, works at a Mexican food restaurant in a section of New York’s East Harlem that is now unofficially considered “Little Mexico.”

For more Beyond the Border stories, see this week’s issue of the Weekly.

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