What makes Nora Rodriguez a hero is that she helps Central Americans with their immigration paperwork, according to the text Mayela Sanchez the author of the text states,"... a Honduran woman runs a small business helping Central Americans with their immigration paper". She helps them making them fill out forms and letters so they can be sent to the immigration office. She does this because when she was younger she try to cross to border from Guatemala and Mexico and to th U.S. To make money to send to her to her three children she had, but when she was crossing the border between Guatemala and Mexico, she was assualt and so the thiefs took all her money she had save to use when she was crossing the border. She didn 't have money to continue