I Took An Uber Ride With A Columbian Driver
Yesterday I had to cause to take a 15 minute ride with Uber. I usually converse with the drivers, and this guy was eager to converse too.
I asked him long he's been driving, whether or not he drives downtown often, and how many hours he works a day. He said he has driven people to Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, but he really likes Illinois. He told me what neighborhood he lived in and said he thought it was very nice. (It is an ordinary blue collar neighborhood around Midway airport.) He said he works 14 hours a day. He was eager to ask me about various places in the USA, what were my favorite places, and mentioned a number of cities and states he wanted to visit. He was, I would say, enthusiastic about America and the opportunities it has provided him. He was a very friendly guy. He said his mother makes lunch for him everyday and he makes sure to drive by her house to pick it up. He said his wife is an American woman and that he has been in the US for 5 years. He came from Colombia.
I wondered if he was legal or not but I didnt ask him. I wondered if he is afraid that he might be driving down the street and be stopped by ICE because of how he looks. I wondered if he has a pending immigration case before the court. But I didnt ask him any of those things because I didnt see any need to.
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