Manuel traveled all the way to america, to move, with one backpack!? What is this? Kept expecting them to go to baggage or for the bag to be in the background. Nope one single backpack for supposedly the rest of his life. TLC fakery? What’s he really here for and for how long?! 🤥🤔
Ashley’s fantasy: is a man with a body like this, minus the machismo, who wants to be a family man with her.
Song: gerardo - rico suave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8_f3kJOX_8
She settles for Manuel.
(Ashley had a dream that she was in the jungle working with the earth. Her Biology teacher had a group going to Ecuador, and she went to study abroad there. Manuel asked her to dance. They got engaged a week later.)
Instead she gets a machismo man who wants a green card, and to send money back to his family in Ecuador, then bring his family to live in the U.S.
“In the first 11 months of fiscal year 2023, Border Patrol apprehended nearly 99,000 Ecuadorians who entered the U.S. without authorization, a 312% spike from fiscal year 2022 and an annual record, federal data show.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-us-program-ecuador-border-crossings/#:~:text=Ecuadorian%20migration%20to%20the%20U.S.%20border%20soars&text=In%20the%20first%2011%20months,annual%20record%2C%20federal%20data%20show.
Oh, I was just taking a shower, looked up and saw a bottle of Suave.