Not All Mexican Migrants Are Poor Laborers

“While many Americans associate Mexican immigration with poor, rural laborers, a large number of those seeking work in the United States these daus are better-educated and hail from relatively well-to-do, middle-class backgrounds in the city.

Many set aside years of training and education to illegally clean houses, take seasonal landscaping jobs or accept positions at meatpacking plants _ all of which pay better than most white-collar work in their homeland.”

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