Two days prior to Christmas, a then-21- year-old Milan approached his mama and stated he was headed towardsAmerica With imagine operating in Hollywood as an animal handler and $100 from his daddy tucked into his sock, the local of rural Culiac án, a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, invested weeks attempting to permeate the border atTijuana
“My life was just against the wall. It’s almost like an animal in the zoo against the wall, back and forth, back and forth,” he remembered in a 2019 interview with DailyMailTV “Many times, I let the immigration catch me, so I can eat, because the Mexican police won’t feed you, but the Americans do. At least they gave you bread with bologna and a coke and that gives you some sugar, and some carbs, and some salt. That’s pretty much it. That’s not a really healthy meal, but it at least kept you alive.”
He was lacking choices when, “This guy comes out of nowhere, very thin guy, dirty, and he’s smoking a joint and he said, ‘Do you want to cross the border? I’ll charge you $100,'” he shared. “That for me was a sign, because nobody knows how much money you have.”
After crawling through a canal and costs 2 months sleeping under highways, cleaning automobiles and meals, he made his method to Los Angeles, where he changed a task as a canine walker into a gig cleaning kennels– and after that into his own Pacific Point Canine Academy and lastly a television empire– with a little aid from buddy Jada Pinkett Smith, who employed him an English tutor.
“We come with the whole survival spirit, fate, passion to feed our families,” Milan, who ended up being a U.S. resident in 2009, stated of himself and his fellow immigrants. “We left home not because we wanted to. It’s because there are no opportunities, so we are here to push your economy faster than you could ever think. We’re the fuel.”
