Emilio Garcia helped settle Lansing.
Garcia was about 14 when he moved here from Mexico around 1940 with his two brothers, recalled his son Joe.
“They would travel here, work for eight, nine or 10 months, basically live on nothing and take back as much as they could to their families,” he said. He added his father had “several opportunities” to settle permanently in the U.S but that he was uninterested in doing so — to start off…