These are the people who maintain the Peruvian economy afloat. And yet they have to waste hours here waiting for a stamp.

Business owners are not trying to determine if a person is documented or not, or that the documents are valid and legal per se. We are in business to conduct business and bring in profits.

It's abusive. With all the money we send back to Peru, we are still treated like second-class citizens.

What I'm proposing is that the money raised here should stay here to provide better services and support for the U.S.-Peruvian community.

I'm still waiting to wake up, it hasn't sunk in yet.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.