This immigrant is working hard and saving money, but desperately misses his home Two of Carlos Joaquin’s children are in Guatemala, where he has financed the building of a new home for his family by sending money back from the U.S. Carlos Joaquin of Santa Rosa, Guatemala, crossed the street with his son Fernando Salinas on the way to a Tornado bus station in El Paso on March 30, 2019, after being released by the Border Patrol to await an asylum hearing.(Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer) Year two. Carlos Joaquin can’t remember a time he worked so hard, nor a time he longed for home so much. After two years in North Texas waiting for his day in court to argue his case for asylum in the U.S., home beckons.