Where Money Grows on Trees

For the Soto family, survival meant more than just making ends meet-it meant crossing borders to start over in a foreign land where language, culture, and dignity felt just out of reach. When Lupe was just eight years old, she found herself in the middle of cherry orchards and dusty fields, working ardu-ous long hours alongside her parents and siblings. Her family had once lived a life of wealth and power in Mexico-but when her mother left everything behind to search for her estranged husband in