“Many of the people I see are being persecuted. The new immigrant, desperate to be reunited with his family, is easy prey for a coyote,” said Freddy Sánchez, commissioner of la Defensoría del Pueblo (People’s Defense), an office set up by the Ecuadorian Congress to aid Ecuadorians in the United States, Canada and Mexico. He’s working on two such cases affecting more than 100 Ecuadorians currently. more>