Lupe works at the bank. She's a teller. She's worked at the bank for nearly ten years now. Not long ago, she was at her post when it fell her turn to serve a gringo gentleman who had been in Mexico only a short time.
There are 18 million people of Mexican heritage living in the US. Four Mexican senators traveled to Washington to lobby Congress to grant residence to 3 million illegal immigrants - President George W. Bush promised to speed up the process of making new arrivals US citizens. This is a massive voting block that could determine the outcome of elections. Unfortunately, this has been postponed due to the terrorist situation.