Dozens Of Undocumented Immigrants Employed By The World Trade Center Remain Missing

For a brief moment, on the morning of Sept. 11, Teresa Garcia thought she'd seen a ghost.

She was in her office <<where..just blocks away?>>, watching the news of the attacks on the World Trade Center, when he walked in.

"He was covered with dust. All white dust. And we couldn't even recognize him," Garcia says, recalling that day. "But he talked to my coworker and he said 'Esperanza.' And she said, 'Chino, is that you?' "

Garcia works at Asociacion Tepeyac, a non-profit that assists mostly Latino immigrants <<with what?...'with everything from housing to blah blah, or whatever is accurate>>.

The man who walked in, who went by Chino, <<is there a reason we don't know his last name? safety, protection?>> had been heading over to start his shift at a restaurant at one of the towers, when the first plane hit. <<Little transition here, something like. In shock, he walked to Asociacion Tepeyac, and to Garcia and Esperanza." Does Esperanza have a last name?>>

"He came over to her (Esperanza)," Garcias says, "and he embraced her, and they started crying."

Little by little, dozens of workers started filing into Tepeyac's offices, But what stood out were the absences among them: the missing friends who worked