Lillian Riveira

Lillian Riveira is from San Sebastian, El Salvador. She completed high school and began to study chemistry and pharmacology at the University but dropped out due to health problems and decided to come to the United States in 2006.

LILLIAN RIVEIRA

Fish Cutter

SPANISH
Estar de pie todo el día te cansa. Pero a veces, cuando estás trabajando, limpiando peces, empiezas a pensar en tu padre o a veces en tu madre y piensas "te enviaré mi cheque esta semana para esto (de vuelta a casa)" y siempre estás pensando en tu gente.

Para mí, ha sido muy positivo porque me proporciona un ingreso e ingresos para mi familia...todos estamos esforzándonos y como inmigrantes (indocumentados) o aquellos que ya tienen un permiso de trabajo, pero todos tenemos el mismo propósito de ganar dinero para poder enviar a nuestras familias, por lo que ha sido muy bueno.

ENGLISH
To be standing all day makes you tired. But sometimes when you are working, cleaning fish, you start thinking of your father or sometimes your mother and you think "I'll send my check this week for this (back home)" and you are always thinking about your people.

For me, it has been very positive because it provides me with an income and income for my family...we are all striving and as (undocumented) immigrants or those who already have a work permit, but we all have the same purpose to earn money to be able to send to our families, so it has been very good.


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