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09-20-2009, 09:20 AM #1
Mexicans making use of business visas to reach U.S.
Web Posted: 09/20/2009 12:00 CDT
Mexicans making use of business visas to reach U.S.
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EDWARD A. ORNELAS/eaornelas@express-news.net
Pierre Oliver Gama Valdes (left) and Manuel Octavio Espejo Pantoja bought the Village Gourmet Grill and Bakery on Stone Oak Parkway on an L-1 visa.
By Todd Bensman
None of his wealth could protect Mexican entrepreneur Pierre Oliver Gama Valdes from organized criminal gangs threatening his family for money; if anything, business success put a bull's-eye on his back.
But wealth did help Gama, who said he has started businesses that employ 500 people, get him and his family a ticket out of Mexico's line of fire, fast. It bought him legal residency in San Antonio and perhaps citizenship later, almost no questions asked.
Gama, 34, and a business partner who followed him here are among thousands of Mexico's affluent citizens using U.S. business visas to essentially buy an escape from their nation's drug war.
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