(Maybe we could print fliers with this article and hand them out at day labor centers.)

Mexicans "breathe free" in Windsor
Don Lajoie, Windsor Star
Published: Thursday, September 20, 2007

While many of the recent Mexican arrivals from Florida have little understanding of their status, some of those who spoke to The Star are convinced their situation has got to be better in Canada.

Carina Gonzalez, 26, who arrived at the Detroit-Windsor border from Naples, Fla. by car Sept. 4, along with her husband, two daughters and accompanied by three other families in their cars, said in an interview that when she stepped out of Canadian immigration offices after an 11-hour wait: "I could finely breathe free."

She said, since arriving, it has been the most relaxed and welcomed she has felt in the 10 years since she literally "ran" the U.S. border in Arizona as a frightened 16-year-old girl.

"Canada feels totally different," she said in lightly accented English, learned on various temporary jobs throughout the southern U.S. "I feel free. I don't feel like I'm being chased. I feel thankful for the help I get. Everywhere I go people want to help us. Never got that feeling before (in the U.S.)"

She said she has already begun the legal process of applying as a refugee and, while uncertain what that may involve, she is ready to proceed with her application, hoping to eventually obtain legal status in Canada, find a job, get a home and enroll her children in school.

She said her husband, who took jobs as an itinerant day labourer and construction worker in Florida, also expects to find work soon. Her 17-year-old brother-in-law, Rudulpho Munoz, said his main ambition, after being forced to work in Florida for $8 an hour on day jobs in construction virtually since adolescence, is to go back to school.

Because the only sure way to survive as an illegal immigrant in the U.S. is to work, Gonzalez said she is used to hustling for employment and is willing, and able to begin work as soon as possible. She suggested she might even be able to find employment as an interpreter for others she is sure are coming behind her from Florida.

http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/story ... fa&k=32382

I wonder how long before illegals will be marching in the streets while waving Mexican flags and calling Canadians racists?