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...sweeping amnesty for illegal immigrants. The measure was also supposed to crack down on future illegal immigration. It didn't. Desperate indocumentados kept pouring in, and eager U.S. businesses kept hiring them. A decade later, when I was based in Mexico City, Washington tried again with the Illegal Immigrant & Migrant Responsibility Act. It was going to "seal" the border with more fences and thousands of new border patrol agents. It didn't. By 2000, in fact, the number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. had risen to almost 2 million a year, the highest ever...
...MONEY $23 billion Amount of money sent home by Mexican migrant workers in 2006, mostly from the U.S. $9 Median hourly wage in 2004 of Mexican-born workers...
...billion Amount of money sent home by Mexican migrant workers in 2006, mostly from...
Alberto Bautista, 30, is a rarity in Santa Cruz Mixtepec: a young adult male. Most of the sons, husbands and brothers from this poor remote hamlet of Mixtec Indians, tucked in the sierras of southern Oaxaca state, are migrant workers in the U.S. Some 60% of Santa Cruz's population of 3,000 live illegally al otro lado - on the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border - sending back almost $1 million last year...
...Social Sector Credit Unions (AMUCSS), they pooled $170,000 and set up Xu Nuu Ndavi. One of its first business-starter loans, about $5,000, went to Mendoza's husband Daniel, 45, whose carpentry shop now employs Alberto and two other locals. Their buddy Modesto Ramos, 33, another returned migrant worker, has used his credit to raise and market tomatoes from a 1,200-sq.-ft., irrigation-equipped greenhouse...