FLOOD 11: The Action Issue

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J

uan Pablo Wauters was 18 years old in 2002 when he boarded a plane in his hometown of Montevideo, Uruguay and flew to New York City to reunite with his father. Wauters arrived on a tourist visa; six months later, when the terms of that visa expired, he joined the approximated half a million undocumented immigrants living in NYC. Of that number, more than a third are believed to reside in Queens, which is where Juan’s family had decided to make their new home.

BY NICK FULTON PHOTOS BY ALBERTO WAUTERS


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