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...best friend Juan Pablo Fulgencio, 20, each earned about $7,000 during the 18 months they held minimum-wage jobs in a Chicago meat-packing plant. Whatever did not go toward rent and food was spent on the flashy clothes that seem sharply out of place in Huandacareo. No longer comfortable in his hometown, Fulgencio plans to go back to the U.S. Martinez is seeking a job in Mexico because, he says, "people in the U.S. don't want us there...
...that could inundate Mexico as jobs become increasingly scarce in the U.S. The sudden tide of returnees is likely to have a serious effect on hundreds of towns and villages across the country. To assess the potential impact, TIME Correspondent John Moody traveled to the central Mexican town of Huandacareo (pop. 15,000). His report...
...Huandacareo is bracing for an invasion against which there is no ready defense: thousands of its own citizens returning from north of the Rio Grande. The president of the municipal council, Enrique Gonzalez Martinez, estimates that 25% of the town's inhabitants now work in the U.S., most of them illegally. By sending home some or all of their pay, they keep a steady stream of dollars flowing into the local economy. Their absence has taken pressure off employers, who, like many in economically straitened Mexico, have no jobs to offer. If Gonzalez's worst fears prove true, some...
...himself the victim of a cruel paradox. Employers in the area have put out the word that those returning from the U.S. need not apply. Their attitude is summed up by Ignacio Manriquez, 26, Jorge's cousin, who employs about 80 people on six pig farms in and around Huandacareo. "They get used to the big money they make in the U.S.," he says. "They see they won't make in a day what they were getting in an hour up there. And the first time there's a problem, they say, 'You can take this job and shove...
...odor of the surrounding pig farms has drifted into the center of town. Oblivious to both, the newly returned residents make small talk as they lounge on metal benches in the plaza. In the language of the Tarascan Indians who ruled the area before the Spanish conquest, Huandacareo means "place of speakers." Now, 500 years later, there is little else...
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