Sunday, October 21, 2012

Migrants are finding work in Mexico, not the USA.

Poverty generates isolation and worry.

Silvia Campos



‘Caravan of hope’ searches for lost relatives (click here)

...Silvia Campos had an emotional reunion with her son Serbelio Mateos, now a construction worker in Tabasco with a Mexican wife and children, said Ruben Figueroa, caravan organiser from the Mesoamerican Migrant Movement.
The caravan, dubbed “Releasing Hope,” left Guatemala on Sunday and is expected to arrive in Mexico City on Tuesday.
The goal is to visit 14 of Mexico's 32 federal entities in search of lost relatives from Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Around 140 000 Central Americans illegally enter Mexico's southern frontier each year in the hope of reaching the distant United States up north, according to government figures....