This article is about an untold story of an undocumented immigrant family who went through 9/11. Luis and Ana came to New York in the late 1980’s when he got a job as a bus boy. They had a son together and raised him in Queens NY. In 1996 he landed the job of his dreams and worked for the Windows on the World restaurant that was on top of the North tower. In 2001 he was promoted to a manager position. On September 11th he headed into work kissing his wife goodbye like he usually does and started his day at 5:30 in the morning. The restaurant had over 400 workers that included immigrants from over two dozen different countries. Luis sadly was on of the 73 people who died along with 6 other workers and 91 guest. Kenneth Feinberg created a Victims Compensation Fund and raised over 7 billion dollars for people who were injured or dependents of the deceased. After Ana was really scared because she lived here illegally, she wanted to leave but needed to stay for her son who needed special medication they couldn’t get back home. Ana was afraid to ask for help because of her status but when she did the amount of help she received she said “was so beautiful”. In 2016 she finally got her green card and owns her own bakery something Luis and her dreamed about. Unfortunately they never found his body but since he always wanted his ashes to be in the ocean Ana believes that’s where he is.
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