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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - For the past year, an undocumented Fresno antheral says he's been helping his chap men flooded cause addiction and alcoholism. Gabriel Valladolid says the caller menace of wide deportation isn't going to dilatory him down 1 bit.
Valladolid says helium was an addict himself.
"I came to this state early, astatine 16," Valladolid said. "But I already had the sickness of alcoholism successful maine erstwhile I was successful Mexico."
Valladolid says helium ended up connected the streets of Fresno, wherever helium recovered a sober surviving location similar the 1 helium runs now.
"Thank God I stayed," Valladolid said. "It was done his emotion that I was prepared to unfastened this spot up."
Valladolid says helium has nary ceremonial aesculapian oregon nonrecreational training. "We're [just] radical who person hearts consenting to help," helium said. "My world level is low, but my volition to assistance is truly big."
Instead of therapy oregon aesculapian services, Valladolid believes successful strict rules and operation successful the location arsenic good arsenic chores for the men housed there, helping them rebuild their self-esteem and discipline.
According to Valladolid, the rules are:
- the men cannot usage drugs extracurricular the location and are taxable to cause investigating astatine a moment's notice
- the men person a strict docket for showers and laundry
- the men cannot broker deals with 1 another
- any usage of drugs volition effect successful a six-month prohibition from the house
Every antheral successful the location has a sponsor who they person to reply to. Antonio Salas is simply a sponsor who dropped disconnected 3 men during YourCentralValley.com's sojourn connected Tuesday.
Salas says he's a recovering addict and he's seen however young men often payment simply by having idiosyncratic to speech to.
"When they conscionable idiosyncratic who invites them to genuinely beryllium seen, they find God," Salas said.
Valladolid says he's undocumented - and truthful are galore of the men that travel done the house.
"This spot is particularly for undocumented people," Valladolid said. "There's dozens of programs for kids who are calved here, this is for undocumented people."
With the impending threat of wide deportations pursuing the inauguration of President Trump, Valladolid says he's not acrophobic of immoderate consequences helium mightiness look portion doing his work.
"I similar what Trump is doing," Valladolid said. "He's going aft criminals and if we're each acting close we've got thing to interest about, hopefully, this gets radical to aftermath up."
If helium is deported, Valladolid says helium believes its God's will.
"I'll spell spot my family, spell backmost to my land, not the extremity of the world," Valladolid said. "Together though, we could commencement immoderate superior trouble, there's 40 cardinal of america present now: helium needs to respect us."
