Latina Lista: Mexican Government Creates Contest to Get Migrant’s Stories to the Policymakers

Posted on: July 18th, 2006
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“There is a widely known fact among la raza that today’s politicians who have declared undocumented immigrants as Public Enemy #1 seem to have forgotten: most undocumented immigrants did not come over with the intention of staying in the United States.

The intent was, is and always has been, for the vast majority of immigrants from Mexico and Latin America, to come long enough to earn some money to help the family back home — then return there, unless home meant dodging bullets from an ongoing civil war.”

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