The US border with Mexico has become a meeting point for le¬gais or illegal immigrants, who every day try to enter the United States. Every mexica¬na economic crisis, waves and waves of immigrants try to jump the border 5,000 km from exten¬são, forcing the Americans to create a systematic monitoring system.
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It principal¬mente the "braceros", hand-intensive non-specialized going to the United States for temporary work. There, in the US and Mexico, networks of hand labor trá¬fico, exploran¬do dependency status of illegal immigrants, with practices ranging from issuing, are false documents to the compulsory payment ta¬ xas their "protectors".
The border between the two countries is at present one of the clearest boundaries between
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the rich world and the poor world. In almost all of this border strip, there is a wall punctuated by barbed wire stretches, controlled diuturnamente the custody of the American frontier and sophisticated electronic systems whose purpose is to prevent at all costs the entry of illegal immigrants in the United States. Every day, thousands of people attracted by the richness of the greatest economic power in the world, try to cross this border in search of a new life.
Those who can not remain in the area waiting for a new opportunity. This has created a true "population explosion" in northern Mexico, as well Mexicans themselves, crowds of almost all of Latin America there are targeting. This situation has generated huge pockets of poverty that nothing are due to the Brazilian favelas. A similar situation is repeated on a smaller scale, on the American side, as is the case of McAllen (Texas), considered the city with the worst poverty rates across the United …show more content…
States. If the current rate of immigration to northern Mexico holds, analysts predict that in about 25 years, about 40% of Mexicans are living in the states located along the border strip. Currently, already living in the region almost 20% of Mexicans. In 1990, they did not reach 15%. This significant population growth is explained also by the fact that it was in this area that, in recent decades, settled nearly 2000 factories of US companies, especially taking advantage of the low remuneration of labor, Mexican labor force. Known as "maquiladoras", these plants are located in Mexican cities near the border with the other hand, a "twin" city of the United States. In general, the maquiladoras work as follows: the Mexican side are assembly lines and across the border, the administrative sectors. There are cities "Twin" all along the border, as in the case of El Paso (USA) and Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Laredo (USA) and Nueva Laredo (Mexico) among others. The generation of jobs by maquiladoras and migration to the United States appear as alternatives to improve the income of the poor. The growth of maquiladoras also contributed to the formation of a dynamic industrial region in northern Mexico, an activity that was previously almost exclusively concentrated in the central region of the country. Every day across the border from Mexico to the United States about 1 billion barrels of oil, 400 tons of pepper, 240,000 bulbs, plus $ 51 million pieces of all kinds. The border is also a geopolitical voltage range due to drug trafficking, arms and illegal immigration flows. Hidden in false trucks funds, trucks and vans traveling tonnes of drugs banned by law, shoes made with animal skin extinction, weapons of all kinds, as well as heroin, marijuana and cocaine. The fight against drug cartels is one of the central points of the relationship between Mexico and the United States. Trafficking in illegal immigrants has also become a national security problem in Mexico. His "trade" that moves about $ 5 billion annually, is controlled by mafias with branches worldwide. The "guides" of these illegal immigrants, known as coyotes come charging $ 5,000 per crossing. In the last two decades were not a few immigrants who lost their lives trying to reach the United States. Although part of them is captured by US border police and sent back to Mexico, estimates that each year transiting the border about 1 million illegal immigrants. Among other factors, this is why the Free Trade Agreement of North America (NAFTA), only refers to aspects of free trade among member countries. At no time suggests the free movement of persons. " Wealth, health, welfare, etc. These are the factors that attract illegal immigrants to the United States. Mainly from Mexico and Latin countries. More is what they find there? A desert, a river, a strong police at the border, very hot day and very cold at night. If they can survive all this, they will have to go for jobs that may have abuse of all kinds, usually pay low, heavy duty and even daily journey longer than allowed. Scenes from the novel "America" showed all this suffering. But not always in real life there is a happy ending, as in the novels: "Generally, immigrants die at the border or are captured. Several people spend around 10 thousand reais to make a trip that will come to nothing and still try again. " So much for the Mexican temptation, which, since Americans have chosen to reinforce the California border, have to go to Arizona, where the motto is little policed, creating a situation whose explosive potential is only now beginning to be evaluated. In the absence of border guards, farmers in the region, angered by illegal immigrants - that guarantee, cut fences, damage water pumps and leave garbage in pastures - have assumed policing. There are many stories of illegal immigrants trying to enter the country by Arizona and are killed by farmers.
One of them hit by a shot in the groin as he approached a farmer, begging for a drink of water, was abandoned in the desert, where he bled to death. One of the farmers, Roger Barnett, owner of an area on the border, came to capture approximately 3,000 illegal immigrants in just 5 months. In Arizona, illegal immigrants cost about US $ 15.5 million annually to the border cities in expenses with cases involving theft charges and other offenses.
The dangers, however, did not discourage applicants for a job in the US, where the pay, even for those without documentation, can exceed US $ 6 per hour, compared with $ 2 or less a day in Mexico. Today, one in nine Mexican living in the United States. Immigrants account for 31% of hand-intensive non-specialist employed in the country. More than half of the 2.5 million farm workers in the US are illegal immigrants.
That's what so many dream of Brazilians who come to the States: wealth, comfort, safety, or at least a job with good salary. But death is what many are on the way, as shown in a commercial American Border
Patrol. "There are many reasons to cross the border, none worth more than your life," preaches the commercial. "I left my wife, my son two months and a half, my mother," says a Brazilian. "We cold, hungry, we were treated badly, very badly treated. I wondered many times what I was doing there. Why after you arrive there is what you see. I had no need to be there. Back was worse, "says a woman. These Brazilians already had crossed the border when we find them. To reach the United States, exhausted, they surrendered to patrol and were arrested. For 30 days, under a blazing sun, they crossed Mexico, through infested places of snakes. "The woman was bitten by a snake, the coyote had to kill her. And they said to her groom and groom left to shoot it, "says the man. For illegal immigrants, this is the last step before entering the United States: the border with Mexico. What separates the American dream is just a river. Less than 50 meters away from here at this point. It is to cross it that so many Brazilians risk everything, including life. Joe Aguilar owns a farm right on the border. Thousands of migrants pass through his land. Joe shows tipped fences. More than 15,000 agents inspect the border. The entire length of the river is monitored by cameras and illuminated at night. Trucks entering the United States pass through here. It looks like a building, but is a gigantic x-ray equipment reveals what lies behind even metal. It is to find out if, in the cargo compartment, there are drugs, smuggling or immigrants. The patrollers who travel the river by boat go armed with M-16 military rifles. From time to time they have to deal with smugglers and drug traffickers. But one of the main missions of them is to save people who fall in the river. Despite being narrow, it is quite profound. In a passage is 20 meters deep and in some places the flow is very strong. So who falls here runs the serious risk of drowning. The cross on the edge is a reminder of that. Every year, dozens of people are found dead by patrol this region. The patrol up and down the river in search of the favorite places for crossing. In one of the passages, they they spot signs. Find clothes, bags with medicines, belongings left behind in the desperate attempt to enter the United States. Throughout the region, the patrol sensor installed below ground. When someone passes, the alarm sounds and immigrants are arrested. Brazilians found in McAllen road had been through it all. They were waiting for a bus to a town in the northern United States. They had their passports confiscated and were released on the condition to present to court in six months
Ruben Martinez was fascinated with the tragedy of three brothers who were killed when the truck carrying them and 23 other undocumented migrants across the Mexico – United States border turned over in a high-speed chase with the U.S. Border Patrol. “Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail” is a story about crossing and life in the United States.
United States labor officials approached the Mexican Department of Migration about a controlled and managed system of legal migration. The Bracero Program offered Mexicans the opportunity to legally work in the United States. Braceros were healthy, landless, and surplus male agricultural workers from areas in Mexico not experiencing a labor shortage. Braceros met the labor need to American agri-businessmen, but Hernandez counters that the Bracero Program was a system of labor exploitation, a project of masculinity and modernization, and a sit of gendered
The book, “Y no se lo trago la tierra” by Thomas River and the article “Immigrants: The Story of a Bracero” author David Bacon both represent a historical time. In the year 1942 the U.S and Mexico negotiated an agreement that was known as the “Bracero Program”. This agreement gave Mexicans the opportunity to come to the U.S and enhance a better life. On the other hand, for Americans it was an assistance they required to keep the country going after the World War II. This need took the U.S to do a complete turnaround. Before they were trying to prevent Mexican immigrants from entering the country and now they had to open their doors to them. Thus, U.S was in need of Mexican laborers to help supply soldiers with food and keeping the agriculture growing. Moreover, a vast number of Migrant Farm Workers come every year and are spread all across the countries taking positions that Americans would never tolerate due to hard conditions, the insufficient wage, and the physically challenging labor they have to face. All this leads to a hard historical time for both counties as Thomas Rivera and David Bacon illustrate their protagonist points of view throughout stories and testimonials of the experience and struggles they were faced with during this time.
To be called a walker you need to come from a place where you work all day but don’t make enough ends meat. Urrea explains the small towns and villages where all the poor Mexican citizens yearn for bigger dreams and a better lifestyle. He talks about the individual subjects and circumstances that bring the walkers to decide to cross the border and risk death. Urrea tells the stories of the fourteen victims and giving brief sketches of each individual lives in Mexico. The men were mostly workers on coffee plantations or farmers. They were all leaving their families who consisted of new brides, a wife and several children or a girlfriend they hoped to marry someday. They all had mainly the same aims about going to the U.S, like raising enough money to buy furniture or to build a house, or, in one case, to put a new roof on a mother's house. All of these men really craved a better life and saw the chance for that in the U.S. Being that these men are so hung...
Each day more and more immigrants legally or illegally cross the US border in search of
A nation without borders is not a nation. Today, every country is making effort to secure its borders not only from terrorists, drugs and smuggling but also from illegal immigration. All these recurring activities have sparked the United States to secure its borders against illegal immigrants and terrorism by creating a special department named the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headed by the Secretary of Homeland Security. After the terrorist attack of 9/11, terrorism and illegal immigration were two striking issues for the DHS. To solve these issues, the Department of Homeland Security further created two immigration enforcement agencies: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Customs and
... and unsafe. The struggles the migrant farm worker faces are of the most severe of any industry, and yet, they are true to their craft. They always ensure the product they harvest meets the expectations of the American consumer.
During World War II, the United States was in dire need of Mexico and its laborers. The Americans were at war and the labor was needed to supply the soldiers with food as well as to help keep the countries’ agriculture business going. As well, the Mexican government failed to provide many Mexican peasants who were skilled workers with the resources they needed to improve their lives following the Mexican Revolution of 1910. With this being said, by the late 1930’s, many crops in Mexico were insufficient, making those skilled workers look elsewhere for jobs. On August 4th, 1942, the United States and Mexico negotiated a temporary contract to allow Mexican guest workers into the United States. These agricultural and railroad labor contracts were intended to be short-term and terminated once World War II was over. However, after involving over 4.5 million people, it can be said that the longstanding effects of this program contributed to today’s illegal immigration from Mexico. By analyzing the different components involved with The Bracero Program, there will be a deeper understanding to how this intended short-term legal contract
They face many issues such as economic instability, depression, loneliness, fear of being alone and feeling betrayed. Children feel depressed in cases like this because even at a young age they know that things are not okay. They also suffer from fear and being betrayed, they suffer fear because they 're scared of what is going to happen to their family since they 're so used to having their family together. Many times children who face this situations feel like they’ve been betrayed because they don’t know why their mother or father have gone away and not came back. The psychologist mentions that it’s very normal for children to feel this way and conduct a different behaviour than usual because just like everyone else they don’t seem to understand
For many Mexican immigrants, crossing the border into the land of freedom and the American dream is no easy task. Some immigrants come over illegally by means of hiding in cars to cross borders, using visitor visas to stay longer, marrying to become citizens, and having babies as ‘anchors’ to grant automatic citizenship. Other immigrants gain green cards and work visas and work their way into becoming US citizens legally and subsequently gaining citizenship through paperwork for their families back home. After escaping harsh living and working conditions in Mexico, immigrants come to America prepared to gain education, opportunity, and work. This American dream unfortunately does not come to pass for most.
The idea of coyotes’ behavior and Mexican immigrants are intertwined so intensely when the notions of how they are both willing to do anything to survive, they are cunning and unrelenting, and dreadful but captivating to Americans is observed. Cándido Rincon is paralleled to a coyote when their behavior and way of living matches in many instances. América connects to a female coyote when they both see men, especially ones in uniform and from immigration, as their enemies. T.C. Boyle explores the argument of the immigration issue through Delaney’s column about coyotes. Americans will always use Mexican immigrants, who want to survive and make a living, to take the low wage, hard labor jobs they demand be filled.
Rio has released the findings its 2010 census which state that 22.03 percent of the 6,323,037 residents of Rio de Janeiro live in favelas or substandard and irregular housing communities. According to the new report , there are 1,393,314 people in 763 favelas in Rio. (Michael Royster) Therefore in the favelas very dirty, garbage everywhere , also very noisy and the air is not a pleasant in briefprecarious living there. Half the population of the favelas – the immigrants. Nevertheless immigrants good for government . Because they pay taxes also : for water , light and rent their apartments. Moreover it is good for improving the economy. Because it is about a hundred dollars a month!
Mexican immigrant's that migrated to the United States from Mexico was at nearly half million
Stoneyl, Sierra, Jeanna Batalova and Joseph Russel. "South American Immigrants in the United States." Migration Policy Institute (2013). 25 April 2014. .
The United States and Mexican border has been the focus of an abundant amount of controversy the past decade in the States. The border wall, or border fence, is one of several barriers preventing illegal Mexican and South American immigrants from entering the United States. However, as statistics prove, immigration and drug smuggling has been on the rise the past few decades and our “three prong approach” is not confronting the escalating issue at hand. America’s border security is not resilient enough to deter these illegal immigrants and drug smugglers; our border wall must be fortified immediately.