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Staying put: these immigrants ignored mandatory evacuation orders for Irma
Here are some of the immigrants we found during a tour of Key West and Stock Island in the Florida Keys after authorities had issued a mandatory evacuation order prior to the arrival of the powerful hurricane.
José López, a 31-year-old Mexican immigrant, shows how he and his companions placed sheets of plywood over the windows of the trailer they live in.
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Lopez, who was born in the Mexican state of Chiapas, sits on a bench in the makeshift little garden outside the trailer.
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Jorge Goff and José López, who arrived a few years ago in Key West, analyzed their options of evacuation before the arrival of Irma. They thought better of staying in the trailer, but will stay in the key.
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Goff is a painter. He says the owners of The Paradise Inn, the hotel where he works, asked him to guard the building.
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Goff, who is from Honduras, prepared two garbage bags with his clothes and documents. He decided to leave his trailer home and stay at the hotel where he works in Key West.
The trailer home shared by José López, Jorge Goff, Salvador López and two others. Many of the residents of Stock Island live in trailer homes.
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"God, take care of her," is what Goff and Lopez wrote on their Stock Island home before leaving. Authorities ordered a mandatory evacuation of the Florida Keys.
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The idyllic view a few yards from Goff and Lopez's house on Stock Island, several docked boats bob in the waters of the Florida Keys.
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