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12-26-2007, 12:21 AM #1
The undocumented hesitate to enter a less-alluring U.S.
The undocumented hesitate to enter a less-alluring U.S.
Fewer illegal migrants appear to be crossing the border. A shortage of jobs and stricter enforcement put them off.
Marla Dickerson
MEXICO CITY — Lorenzo Martinez, an illegal immigrant who has lived in Los Angeles for six years, has a message for his kin in Mexico’s Hidalgo state: Stay put.
The steady construction work that had allowed him to send home as much as $1,000 a month in recent years had disappeared. The 36-year-old father of four said desperation was growing among the day laborers with whom he was competing for odd jobs.
Sporadic employment isn’t the half of it. Martinez said anxiety also was running high among undocumented workers about stepped-up workplace raids, deportations and increasing demands by U.S. employers for proof that they were in the country legally.
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