FAMILY TIES......
How strong can family ties be? How desperate can someone become for lack of an opportunity to work?The courage, the will power and the desperation of illegal immigrants is a story that is largely unknown by the world. Their fight, their struggle to cross border lines, facing the
dangers not only of being exposed or even killed in their attempt but prey to other dangers as well. It reflects on a kind of spirit that refuses to surrender and strives for personal and family survival amidst the dessilussion and poverty and neglect surrounding poor people everywhere. It reflects on the incapacity of leaders to face a sad reality suffered by their own.
Mexican illegal or legal immigrants living as a group continue to take chances to cross the border risking their lives just to give themselves the opportunity to find works in a country where such work opportunities allow them the posibility of sending money home to their dear ones.
A recent article on The New York Times gives account of the situation of families of in Mexico, who used to receive money on a regular basis from their husbands or parents in USA who now are suffering a situation a shortage, or scarce fund being received due to economic conditions prevailing in the US....The situation reflects on the plightof those left behind in the homeland who now have less to eat or have given up on hopesof building that extra room or house with the money that was sent to them.
On top of that, recent wildfires in the USA have caused that many illegal immigrants trying to flee from the fires fall right in the hands of the border Police.....While the bodies of others like them will remain forever, their bodies charred by fire,in the land they tried to conquer...as a silent and unknown testimony of courage to defy adversity...
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RODEO, Mexico — For years, millions of Mexican migrants working in the United States have sent money back home to villages like this one, money that allows families to pay medical bills and school fees, build houses and buy clothes or, if they save enough, maybe start a tiny business.
But after years of strong increases, the amount of migrant money flowing to Mexico has stagnated. From 2000 to 2006, remittances grew to nearly $24 billion a year from $6.6 billion, rising more than 20 percent some years. In 2007, the increase so far has been less than 2 percent.
Migrants and migration experts say a flagging American economy and an enforcement campaign against illegal workers in the United States have persuaded some migrants not to try to cross the border illegally to look for work. Others have decided to return to Mexico. And many of those who are staying in the United States are sending less money home.
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