There's a Sherwin Williams a few miles from my house and you can pick up mexican painters there for $10/hr that usually do really good work. They hang out by the bus stop. This morning I went in to parking lot and saw a dark complected guy sitting o the bench. I asked him if he was a painter? He indicated that he was, but kept telling me to speak in English because I was speaking a rough approximation of Spanish. I could also tell he was not Mexican or Central/South American. He look Indian and I was close, he is from Nepal.Our communication was cursory and fragmented at best, but I think he is a political refugee. He showed me a detention center card, but I could not really discern what branch of what level of government issued it. I'm pretty sure its not a criminal detention center or he would have never showed it to me.Anyway he did decent painting. Very amateurish, but he worked steadily and carefully. When I fed him lunch with my parents and some other workeers, he was very courteous, bowing to my parent with his hands together at his chest, like Christians do when they pray. I took a liking to the kid (maybe 25? hard for me to tell with different ethnic groups) and was trying to think of some more jobs I could give him to do around here.But I sure would like to find out a bit more about him and what got him here. He told me he got here thru Thailand, Spain, Guatamala, then a bus to here. I think he was telling me that he was here as a political refugee, but I could not understand his affiliations that made him such a thing. He is Hindi, I know China has been exerting a lot of influence in Nepal and a lot of Tinetians are there as refugees, but I cannot figure out what cause he was a part of the get deported or whatever.Does anyone know about the situation there and what might have led him here. I do not think he came voluntarily, but not sure if he was sent away or escaped. His wife and parents are still in Nepal. He said he cannot go back.If anyone can give me some info or thoughts on this, I'd appreciate it. As my wife says, i have a habit of picking up strays/lost souls and trying to help them find a place. It usually backfires, but I still do it.