An amazing number of businesses in this country are started and owned by immigrants, from Google down to the corner stores. - - Donna Poisl
By Elizabeth Stuart, Deseret News
MIDVALE — It's not much.
A small office with a glass-top desk. A handful of part-time employees. A wooden sign on a wall: "de la Cruz & Associates."
But the small consulting firm on Main Street in Midvale is the culmination of generations of dreams.
Olga de la Cruz's father immigrated to the United States from Mexico in 1967 looking for a better life. For him, that meant 4:30 a.m. shifts doing manual labor. For his children, he — like countless new Americans before him— had bigger hopes.
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