SAN ANTONIO — Ronaldo Salgado’s mother called him early Tuesday morning worried and seeking answers: His father had headed out to work, she said, and something had gone horribly wrong.
The eldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo got in his car and headed to Houston’s northern suburbs. He knew his father had been working on a construction site there, just as he had nearly every day throughout the three decades he had spent living in the United States. It was work that had allowed him to raise three sons and help send them to college — a job he did as an undocumented immigrant, hoping to one day have legal status and a shot at the American Dream himself.
