ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – They are the children of New Mexican workers who either died or suffered permanent injury on the job. Ranging from police officers to bus drivers to security guards, their kids are getting support through scholarships from a local nonprofit.
“My dad’s name is Luis Alvarez, and he used to be a bus driver for Greyhound,” said Karla Alvarez, a junior at New Mexico State University. She and her sister Alexa lost their father, Luis Alvarez, to a crash in 2018 when a semi crossed the center line on I-40 near Gallup and hit his bus head-on.
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