Wednesday, July 16, 2008

[USA] More illegal immigrants seem to be going home: lack of jobs, fear of detainment fuelling the move / McClatchy Newspapers, 14 June 2008
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5837211.html
Andrew Viglucci, Melissa Sanchez and Jack Chang
“There was no one thing that caused Hector Salinas to pack his bags and give up for good on the trials of life as an illegal immigrant in South Florida. But the reasons he enumerates are echoed by increasing numbers of Latin American immigrants, legal and not, who appear to be souring on their job prospects and going home: it was the scant money he made at a menial restaurant job, Salinas said, just enough for food and rent, with barely anything left for his family in Mexico — the reason he came in the first place.”