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Fuel costs sending immigrants back to Mexico | Top Stories | Star-Telegram.com (broken link)
"Some laborers, like Pablo Trinidad, resort to carpooling to reduce gas costs. But Trinidad, 40, says fuel prices decrease the amount he’s able to send to his family in Puebla, Mexico, from $100 to $50.
"If things get worse, I will work only to pay for my ride to go back home," Trinidad said.
Lower payments
Juan Jose Leiva, a native of Zacatecas, Mexico, is staying home more and visits the labor center only twice a week.
"Patrons [contractors] are not paying enough now," said Leiva, who plans to return to Zacatecas in November.
In Mexico, Leiva has no other option than to work in agriculture, a job that he said pays less than $100 per week.
"Despite a rough economy in Mexico, I’ve started to see more workers coming back. They get desperate and return," he said.
Away from the center, the situation is much the same for day laborers. Eddie, 23, a U.S. citizen, is learning with his father, Luis, how to solicit work on public street corners. They declined to give their last names because Luis is undocumented..."
Fuel costs sending immigrants back to Mexico | Top Stories | Star-Telegram.com (broken link)
"Some laborers, like Pablo Trinidad, resort to carpooling to reduce gas costs. But Trinidad, 40, says fuel prices decrease the amount he’s able to send to his family in Puebla, Mexico, from $100 to $50.
"If things get worse, I will work only to pay for my ride to go back home," Trinidad said.
Lower payments
Juan Jose Leiva, a native of Zacatecas, Mexico, is staying home more and visits the labor center only twice a week.
"Patrons [contractors] are not paying enough now," said Leiva, who plans to return to Zacatecas in November.
In Mexico, Leiva has no other option than to work in agriculture, a job that he said pays less than $100 per week.
"Despite a rough economy in Mexico, I’ve started to see more workers coming back. They get desperate and return," he said.
Away from the center, the situation is much the same for day laborers. Eddie, 23, a U.S. citizen, is learning with his father, Luis, how to solicit work on public street corners. They declined to give their last names because Luis is undocumented..."
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"By logic, the Nation of Eritrea (pop. 3 million) should not exist. The secessionist province's independence fighters ought never to have defeated Ethiopia in their 30-year-long struggle. They were outmanned, outgunned, abandoned or betrayed by every ally; their cause was hopeless. They won by force of character, a unity and determination so steely not all the modern armaments, super power support or economic superiority of Ethiopia could withstand it. The spirit that saw the Eritreans through 10 years in the trenches of their mountain redoubt at Nakfa has built them a Nation from scratch; since independence was finally consummated in 1993. "The emergence of Eritrea as a working state in so short a time is a remarkable testament to self-reliance. ‘We learned the hard way," says President Issaias Afewerki, ... ‘that our own sense of purpose, our own unity succeed.’, our own organized capabilities were the only things that we could count on to. Alone in Africa, Eritrea carries little debt and accepts virtually no foreign assistance. Over the past four years, it has asked all but six aid providers to leave, including Oxfam and every religious organization. ‘Its not that we don't need the money,’ says Issaias, ‘but we don't want the dependence.’ Aid, he says, subsidizes but corrupts the government, blocks innovative solutions to problems, so that people do not seek out and use their own resources..."
Fuel costs sending immigrants back to Mexico | Top Stories | Star-Telegram.com (broken link)
"Some laborers, like Pablo Trinidad, resort to carpooling to reduce gas costs. But Trinidad, 40, says fuel prices decrease the amount he’s able to send to his family in Puebla, Mexico, from $100 to $50.
"If things get worse, I will work only to pay for my ride to go back home," Trinidad said.
Lower payments
Juan Jose Leiva, a native of Zacatecas, Mexico, is staying home more and visits the labor center only twice a week.
"Patrons [contractors] are not paying enough now," said Leiva, who plans to return to Zacatecas in November.
In Mexico, Leiva has no other option than to work in agriculture, a job that he said pays less than $100 per week.
"Despite a rough economy in Mexico, I’ve started to see more workers coming back. They get desperate and return," he said.
Away from the center, the situation is much the same for day laborers. Eddie, 23, a U.S. citizen, is learning with his father, Luis, how to solicit work on public street corners. They declined to give their last names because Luis is undocumented..."
In Mexico $100 a week is very good money and since the average remittance is about $400 a month, it's obvious he should go home.
For the same money as he's taking from the USA, he can earn in Mexico and be there to help raise his kids.
Families broken apart by remittance fathers living far away and never being around to see their kids is not a good thing at all. Money isn't everything.
Fuel costs sending immigrants back to Mexico | Top Stories | Star-Telegram.com (broken link)
"Some laborers, like Pablo Trinidad, resort to carpooling to reduce gas costs. But Trinidad, 40, says fuel prices decrease the amount he’s able to send to his family in Puebla, Mexico, from $100 to $50.
"If things get worse, I will work only to pay for my ride to go back home," Trinidad said.
Lower payments
Juan Jose Leiva, a native of Zacatecas, Mexico, is staying home more and visits the labor center only twice a week.
"Patrons [contractors] are not paying enough now," said Leiva, who plans to return to Zacatecas in November.
In Mexico, Leiva has no other option than to work in agriculture, a job that he said pays less than $100 per week.
"Despite a rough economy in Mexico, I’ve started to see more workers coming back. They get desperate and return," he said.
Away from the center, the situation is much the same for day laborers. Eddie, 23, a U.S. citizen, is learning with his father, Luis, how to solicit work on public street corners. They declined to give their last names because Luis is undocumented..."
Not only is the ugly economic situation on the US sending immigrants away, but it's also sending away many US citizens. Like me. I'm on social security, from an accident, and believe me, I would rather spend your tax dollars, in a country where I can live like a king. I am not alone...
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