This is a google translation of a article from La Raza. It will be very interesting to see how this turns out. Will this be measurable at schools, employers...


That estimate more than one million will visit, and many will not return to U.S.

Gardenia Mendoza Aguilar
Correspondent of La Opinion

MEXICO, DF- Persecuted, abused, harassed, a nostalgic… one migrants began arriving air to the capital of his country to move toward their homes to projects deferred to slopes: celebrate Christmas as a family, leave behind the American dream and to stay in Mexico.

A decision becomes increasingly more boom due to the more than 170 measures implemented in various states of the American Union against undocumented workers, but that is a double-edged sword, according count.

"Right now I bring my savings, but then I do not know what I will do," admits Daniel Rivera, 33 years old and father of two children, who emigrated to Chicago six years ago.

This man, a native of Teloloapan, Guerrero-the second poorest state in the country worked as a laborer in a factory barbecues in a suburb near the capital of Illinois, until he was unable to drive his car because they had no driver's license or chances of obtaining it for being undocumented.

"I was afraid to go out on the street because the police do not stop if you seem to look Mexican," says Rivera, while unloading at the airport floor of his three suitcases full of clothes.

"One day was driving a truck that I gave my brother and I saw that he approached a patrol. Then I 'parquee' and I came running to hide behind a house. I felt like a ratero [thief]."

The National Migration Institute (INM) estimates that during the holidays decembrinas this year will visit the country around 1300000 Mexicans from the United States, yet there are no figures on how many of them will return or remain in their territory.

Those who seek to reintegrate back into Mexico on a voluntary basis in addition to the more than one million returnees who, according to authorities in border towns, will arrive in the country in the first half of 2008.

Édgar Segura, 29 years old, a native of Netzahualcóyotl, State of Mexico, invest part of the savings achieved working as a dishwasher and cook to install the carpentry workshop which always aspired.

He lived in Atlanta, Georgia, for four years, separated from his wife and three children who left with grandparents.

"It was really painful to be there without them ... without thinking something else he had to make money to build my own house here," says Segura to explain the sentiment in the American Union.

Any setbacks while others marked his stay in County Dacom, where municipal police were converted into immigration agents.

"Before they arrived rented by the department, I went to another city," reveals. "And I kept echándole win."

Each year in December, the platforms of airports Mexicans become a celebration of kisses, hugs and cries to receive returning.

Heriberto Ramirez, a migrant for 40 years, came with a surprise for his brother who lives in Acatlán de Osorio, Puebla: no more back to New York, at least not in the immediate future.

But the brother did not know whether to congratulate him or regañarlo. "Are you sure? Are you sure?" Inquired while he apretaba the back with his arms strong peasant tanning in the sun.

"The gringos no longer want us there, my brother, Heriberto noted, recalling that in the streets near the Statue of Liberty is a group of strangers shouted that largara or call" migration "to review their legal status.

"I did not, I spent long…. Conformed with me and we do not affixed," says between nervous laughter. Now seeks return to their land to plant corn.

And he is nervous because he feared returning to the problems which orilló after seven years ago: that their crops are not enough value in the marketplace, even to retrieve it invested in planting.

"The border is no longer the same. Will not be easy to go back," he concludes. "But do not rule out such a possibility, if fall into ruin."

Precisely in order to avoid problems with the crossing without documents, Agustin Juarez, a guanajuatense of 60 years, scored in the lists of temporary agricultural work in Toronto, Canada, 10 years ago.

Since then he has gone and returned 16 times, built his house and a graduate degree in four of his seven children, but also believes it is the best way:

"The separation from family is something that never ceases to regret. Some of my colleagues have had to deal with their children who become alcoholics or drug addicts without the father figure," he says.

Perhaps why some people are optimistic again. Jose Antonio Abarca returned to Tlaxcala, his hometown, after a 14 years in Chicago. Back to be with his family and because he has 42 years experience in gardening and a lot of faith.

"What am I going to do what?" He asks. "Right now, go to entrust to the Virgin of Guadeloupe, La Villa." © The Opinion

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