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http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldetijuana/notas/n673521.htm

Mexico City.- The proportion of poor Mexicans in the United States was elevated from 25.4 to 35 percent in the last year, consequence of the persecution of immigration politics and discrimination that has been taken advantage of by employers who exclude them of the welfare programs, firing them without cause and conditioning their payment to extraordinary working days.

Of the approximately 12 million Mexicans that work in the neighboring country, one in three live in conditions of poverty that affects more the recently arrived undocumented migrants that out of fear of being deported accept low salaries and without any type of installment, accentuating their condition of exploitation.

The situation of defenselessness of those countrymen that in 2007 sent to Mexico more than 25 Billion dollars in remittances, is so evident that in Texas, New Mexico and California, by citing some examples, add to thousands the ones that have been fired from work without pay, indicates the Center of Border Studies and Promotion of Human Rights in its report "Socioeconomic Conditions of Migrant Mexicans".

Today, the Mexican population that resides in the United States represents the most numerous immigrant group, but it is also the poorest and the most vulnerable one. 53 percent of them do not have health insurance, 11.3 percent are unemployed and seven of 10 live together in a home with five or more family members, as opposed to migrant of other nationalities where the parameter of poverty is of 12.6 and unemployment is 6.4 percent.

The report emphasizes that the consequence of that environment of contempt and pursuit against Mexicans, the migration of countrymen has been oriented toward the states of Florida and Georgia where they are displacing the labor of blacks, poor whites and other migrants.