Cara loved Tamales. She and her grandmother made tamales every year at Christmas. Unfortunately, her grandmother passed away one day. When Christmas came, Cara made the tamales anyway.

I've seen this story before in my own life: I was a little girl growing up with an aunt who used to tell me that she'd never eat anything but black beans until they were

The family's story is told in a book called "Tamale Stories." The author of this article was Michael Rabinowitz who has been writing about human trafficking for over 20 years now (