Montilla, a pharmacist in his home country with three grown children, had traveled to the United States and sat on a bus for 20 hours.

The article goes on to say he lost his wife somewhere in Texas. And I guess he left his children behind in Venezuela. I don't understand why a pharmacist would risk the life of his wife or his own life, and be willing to leave his family in another country, when he was a pharmacist! He said, "I want to grow — economically and personally".... He did not say anything about his life being in danger in Venezuela. These immigration stories don't make sense to me.