Chris Vail, Mexico

Roberto Esparza’s family In June, Roberto Esparza said goodbye to his mother Leticia, his wife Irene and his young son Roberto. He had struggled to make a living in his native Los Conos, Mexico, where the jobs are few and the pay is low. He paid a migrant trafficker $1500 to smuggle him across the U.S border. He knew people in Sarasota, Florida, and could get work there. He planned to earn enough money to complete a mud brick house, begun the year before. It was to be the home for his young family. He never made it to Florida. In October, the remains of his body was found along with 10 other migrants in a locked grain car in a rail yard in Iowa.

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