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...about pulling back the welcome mat. But doing so requires an abrupt shift in the agency's mission, which for the past decade has been informed by conflicting mandates. On the one hand, the U.S. has made a show of plugging up the Mexican border to keep out migrant workers and drug smugglers. Yet it gives much less public scrutiny to the millions who enter the country by air. Once foreigners reach American soil unlawfully, the INS, under pressure from industries that depend on cheap labor, does next to nothing to throw them out. The job of tracking the more...
...Throughout Crossing Over he asserts that during certain months, the border patrol is lenient when farmers need cheap labor. However, during other times of the year, the border patrol’s tactics can be so vigilant and irresponsible as to cause the death of three Mexican migrants. Although it was not one of his original intentions, Martínez wants the book to allow Americans to see that, “even though [Mexican migrants] lack papers, they’ve suffered like other Americans.” Martínez, whom many of the Cherán residents...
...waiting in the wings. All you have to have is unemployment going up." Though Mexican labor statistics are murky, Fox admits that the country lost 200,000 jobs this year when it should have been creating 1.5 million. The country thus needs the safety valve--and dollar remittances--of migrant labor...
...right. At night, along the railroad running north from Tapachula, Jose Pedro Tello Cuevas, southern operations chief of the government's migrant-protection unit, listens to a 25-year-old Salvadoran electrician named Edwin Oswaldo Portillo tell of handing over $4,000 to the state police. "File a charge," Tello Cuevas tells him. But few of the Central Americans would ever dream of taking a case to court; hence a tradition of official corruption continues unabated...
...last year took place in Dongguan. But Hayes Lou, secretary-general of the Dongguan Taiwanese Businessmen's Association, estimates that 30 to 40 Taiwanese die in the city each year, including accident victims. A year ago, two Taiwanese brothers managing a plastics plant were murdered by a pair of migrant workers they had fired. The brothers were bludgeoned with metal pipes. "I went there and saw," Lou says, finishing the sentence with a wordless grimace...