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Every evening in Tijuana, scores of young men gather in an abandoned soccer field, hoping for a chance to cross the border into California. A lone U.S. Border Patrol officer blocks their passage during the day, and so the Mexicans wait for nightfall, when they can slip silently through the shadows. But over the past week they have been looking beyond the Border Patrol at a more threatening obstacle to their hope of finding jobs in the U.S.: the passage by Congress of the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill...
...finally passed into law, Simpson-Mazzoli would make it harder for Mexicans and other job seekers from Latin America to enter the U.S. illegally. Although the bill would ultimately grant permanent residency to many of those already in the U.S. illegally, new border crossers would find it much tougher to find jobs because employers of more than three such workers would be liable for fines of up to $2,000 for each so-called illegal they hire. The men who wait in Tijuana scoff at the idea that the threat of fines will inhibit employers from hiring them as long...
Resentment of the U.S. action was evident throughout Mexico last week, as a congressional conference committee prepared to iron out differences in how the bill should be implemented. A relatively open border with the U.S. has long been taken for granted as a safety valve for the 50% of Mexico's workers who are without jobs or are underemployed. Thus Simpson-Mazzoli is seen not as immigration reform but as an act of aggression against Mexico. In Mexico City, the Ministry of Foreign Relations said that because of the bill, the government would have to increase its vigilance over...
...opposition party in Mexico, predicted that passage of Simpson-Mazzoli would mean increased social tensions in northern Mexico and in the central states of Jalisco and Zacatecas. Many illegal immigrants in the U.S. come from these areas. Jose Luis Perez Canchola, head of the Unified Socialist Party's Border Affairs Commission, warned that if the law resulted in greater numbers of Mexicans being deported, social services in border towns like Tijuana would be severely strained...
...built plants in Singapore and Mexico. Such moves stir bitter resentment among American workers. Says Edward Sesma, 33, who is being laid off this week from his job as a forklift driver at a San Diego tuna cannery: "You only have to look a few miles across the border to Mexico to notice all the companies setting up shop there to take advantage of cheap costs. It's terrible...