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Finding little money left to send home
Immigrants' families in native countries expect help, but it’s getting harder
By JEMIMAH NOONOO
Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
Feb. 16, 2009, 10:25PM


Sharon Steinmann Chronicle



Elizabeth Anane-Sekyere works 13-hour shifts, six days a week. Her husband pastors a small church for modest pay. Together, they’re paying for a mortgage, three college tuitions and a growing 16-year-old.

But like immigrant couples across the Houston area, the Anane-Sekyeres have to stretch their paychecks even further. Recession or no, nieces and nephews back home are depending on them.

“Your children are going to school here,â€

Are they Immigrants or illegal immigrants? if they are immigrants my heart goes out to them and all the legal citizens of our country suffering at the hands of a sadistic government.

If they are illegals in our country, my indignation goes out to them, because they are all part of the "cycle of greed" that caused most of the socio-economic problems our people are being forced to endure.