Abandoned: the Mexican orphans of the rush to cross US border

“When Alexis Silva Carreno was nine years old, his father left Mexico to find work 800 miles away across the US border in Houston, Texas. Alexis was devastated and begged his father not to go. It was not until his mother also headed north that the boy’s entire world collapsed.

“She didn’t even leave any kitchen utensils, she took everything, everything. She left us to be street kids. She forgot her children,” he said, sitting dejected in his classroom at the end of a day at school in the village of San Andreas Nicolas Bravo.

As long as migrants can earn in an hour in America what they earn in a day back home, few observers expect President George W Bush’s plan to use troops to patrol the Mexican border seriously to stem the flow into the US.”

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