A turning tide?
Jun 26th 2008 | NOGALES
From The Economist print edition

Many of the past decade’s migrants to Europe and America are beginning to go home again


New York Times/Redux/Eyevine

A SHARP-EYED coyote, dollars sprouting from his ears, glowers at the roadside. Beside him a muscle-bound American border agent, clad in green and with pistol drawn, looms over a cowering migrant. Nearby a man-sized dollar sign flits away on silver wings. That graffito on a concrete border wall in Nogales, on the Mexican side of the frontier with the United States, tells a simple story: the business of migration in this part of the world is both lucrative and increasingly dangerous.

Residents of Nogales advise visitors to avoid “Buenos Airesâ€