Vielma Law Firm

06/16/2026

Los acogieron en México y se quedaron 🇲🇽🤗

🏆🇲🇽 In 1986, a group of working-class English football fans from the Black Country — the gritty industrial region near Birmingham — scraped together their savings, boarded a plane, and flew 5,000 miles to watch the World Cup in Mexico.

They were Wolverhampton Wanderers supporters. A few of them had recently lost their jobs under Margaret Thatcher's government. The World Cup felt like the adventure of a lifetime. So they went.

They just never came back.

One of them admitted that before the trip, he had to look Mexico up on a map — none of them even spoke Spanish. But from the moment they arrived in Monterrey, something happened. Mexico welcomed them. The people, the warmth, the culture — it changed them completely.

They got arrested at one point for drinking beer in the streets while shirtless. They found jobs. They made friends. They built lives.

Known only by their nicknames — Adder, Rabbithead, Batesy, Arnie, and Texas Steve — all 12 fans in the group eventually stayed, settling across Mexico and the United States.

Arnie (David Arnold) never left Mexico at all. He became the head of a school in Monterrey, where he still lives today, 40 years later.

Adder (Gary Allen) built a company in Atlanta that turned over $20 million a year before he retired.

Batesy (Stuart Bates) carved out a successful career in the car industry in Houston.

One of them said: "I've had to carve my accent down over the years because the Americans can't understand it… but I just missed the banter. The laughs in the pub. The football."

They still go back to England to watch Wolves games when they can. It's just not home anymore.

Mexico became home.

This summer, with the 2026 World Cup being played across Mexico, the United States, and Canada — their 40-year reunion is happening at an England game near Dallas on June 17, and another in Mexico.

Their story has just been made into a documentary called "Lost Down Mexico Way." 🎬

Mexico didn't just host a World Cup in 1986. For a handful of strangers from England, it became a whole new life. 🇲🇽❤️

06/16/2026

Hace 178 años ocurrió algo extraordinario.

Cuando el Río Bravo se convirtió en frontera y la antigua Villa de San Agustín de Laredo quedó del lado estadounidense, hubo familias que enfrentaron una decisión que cambiaría la historia para siempre.

Pudieron quedarse donde estaban.

Pero eligieron seguir siendo mexicanos.

Cruzaron el río con sus recuerdos, sus esperanzas, sus pertenencias y, según cuenta la tradición, hasta con los restos de sus antepasados, porque no querían que sus mu***os quedaran lejos de la tierra que amaban.

No buscaban riquezas ni gloria.

Buscaban conservar su identidad.

De aquel acto de amor a México nació Nuevo Laredo.

Por eso nuestra historia no comenzó con edificios ni calles.

Comenzó con familias valientes que entendieron que una patria no es solamente un territorio; es la memoria de quienes estuvieron antes que nosotros y el legado que dejamos a quienes vendrán después.

Hoy, a 178 años de distancia, recordamos a aquellos fundadores que cruzaron el Río Bravo llevando en el corazón a México.

Feliz aniversario, Nuevo Laredo.

Siempre con la Patria.

06/16/2026

Awesome! 👏🇲🇽💪🏼🙌🏻

He crossed the border at 19 with almost nothing.

No money. Little English. No plan beyond survival.

What happened next is one of the most extraordinary true stories in American history — and his name is Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa. Known to the world simply as "Dr. Q."

Born in Mexicali, Baja California, México, Alfredo grew up in deep poverty. As a young boy, he was already selling food at gas stations to help his family survive. Hardship wasn't a concept he read about — it was his daily reality.

At 19, he made the most defining decision of his life. He crossed into the United States undocumented, chasing something that felt impossible: a better future.

There were no classrooms waiting for him.
There were fields.

He spent years as a farmworker in California's San Joaquin Valley — harvesting crops under the sun alongside other immigrant workers. He was exhausted every night. And every night, he taught himself English and studied whenever he could.

Discipline. One day at a time.

Inspired by the memory of his grandmother — a traditional healer back in Mexico — he decided to pursue medicine.

That decision took him from the farm fields of California to the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a scholarship and studied psychology. Then to Harvard Medical School — one of the most demanding academic institutions in the world. He graduated cm laude. And as an American citizen.

The same hands that once picked crops under the California sun began performing complex brain surgeries.

Today, "Dr. Q" is:

🧠 Chair of Neurologic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida — one of the most prestigious medical centers on earth

🔬 Director of a cutting-edge brain cancer research laboratory, working to develop stem-cell-based treatments that could one day change how we fight brain cancer

✂️ A surgeon who performs awake brain surgery — his patients remain alert during the operation so he can preserve critical brain function in real time

📚 Author of the autobiography "Becoming Dr. Q" — his story of migrant worker to neurosurgeon

🎬 Featured in a Peabody Award-winning ABC series and an Emmy/BAFTA-winning Netflix documentary (*The Surgeon's Cut*, 2021)

🌎 Named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics, Neurosurgeon of the Year, and one of Mexico's most brilliant minds by Forbes Magazine

He has also dedicated his career to mentoring students who come from backgrounds like his own — making sure the door he had to force open stays open for others.

His story isn't about luck.

It's about a boy from Mexicali who refused to let his circumstances define his ceiling.

Talent is everywhere.
Opportunity is not.
When the two finally meet — and determination shows up — lives change.

Not just his life.
The lives of every patient whose brain he has touched.🫶

06/16/2026

06/15/2026

Desafortunadamente esta es la clase de “justicia” que estamos viendo en las cortes de inmigración. A personas que pidieron asilo porque ya mataron, violaron, agredieron, secuestraron a ellos o su familia, como no hicieron reporte de policía ( para evitar que los maten) y no tienen evidencias extras que ahora pide el gobierno, bueno pues los mandan al lugar que les de la gana. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Aquí una AI caricatura de un colega pero muy cierta. La Jueza y Luther King se han de estar volteando en la tumba con tanta injusticia 😡

06/14/2026

Bravo! 👏 Orgullosamente México Americana! Logró sus sueños 🇲🇽🇺🇸

06/13/2026

Que casualidad, ni la saben despistar los “expertos” 🤨

Una auditoría federal reveló que Camp East Montana, el mayor centro de detención de ICE en Estados Unidos, habría destruído o perdido evidencia en un caso de presunto homicidio, así como otras fallas graves.
http://uni.vi/2KPm106zw8U

06/13/2026

Muchas felicidades a nuestros nuevos Ciudadanos Americanos 🇺🇸💐🫶