Javier's mom fled to the US when he was five years old. She left him under the care of his grandparents and your aunts in El Salvador. He recalls being an extroverted, outgoing child before her departure. Javier: "From then on, I'm no longer on this stage"
At age nine, Javier Zamora embarked on a harrowing, 3000-mile immigration journey from El Salvador to the United States. More than twenty years later, he’s finally ready to revisit that period of life and what it took for him to survive such treacherous circumstances.
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