Foreclosure Crisis Shatters the American Dream for Hispanics

Juan M. Alvarez is a by-the-books kind of guy.  When he immigrated to the United States from Mexico in the 1990s, he hired a lawyer to assure his paperwork was correct. With his blue-collar salary from a large home building company several miles east of San Francisco, his family of four lived on a frugal budget as he diligently set aside money to purchase a home as well as sent money to his family in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.