Life Split in Two For Salvadoran Emigrant

Mirna Melendez had paid a people trafficker to help get her out of El Salvador as she had no job and no education. As she left, she told her four children: "You will have to go without my love here, but not without support." That was more than 17 years ago. Today, Melendez is keeping her promise to her kids, working as a maid in New York. "I told them I would be gone five years, but I knew that was not the case," said the short 43-year-old ...