“Before, we saw only rural people with little education,” said Efrain Jimenez, vice president of a Los Angeles group serving migrants from the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas.

“Now we see young professionals or those who, after years of working (in Mexico), haven't been able to save up much money and look for other options.”


That was the case for Jose Alvaro Lopez, whose three years of trade school and degree in appliance repair got him a job that paid only $100 a week in his native Ensenada, 45 miles south of the California border.

The 30-year-old, interviewed at a migrant shelter in Tijuana, said he would try to sneak into the United States and join friends in Nevada.

“They told me that in Las Vegas I could earn $35 an hour repairing refrigerators,” he said.
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