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“As debate rages in the U.S. Congress over an immigration bill that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants and temporary working visas for hundreds of thousands, the reverse journey of the dead suggests that for many Mexicans the sojourn to the United States, legal or not, is meant to be temporary.
Home - at least in death - is south of the border.
“For Mexicans, the bonds of the family unit are very strong,” said the Reverend John Brown, who ministers to Hispanics at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Conway and who presided over a memorial service for Acevedo. “The bond is broken when they go to work in the United States. It is restored in death.”"
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