Why former Mexican migrants are staying home - Tougher border enforcement, jail time, and a slow US economy are causing some Mexicans to reconsider going north for work.

José Balderama spent half a decade in the United States working roofing jobs in Texas. The money he sent home each month went to his wife and four children – a source of income the family expected to count on for many years to come.

But after serving six months at the Eden Detention Center in Texas for getting caught without the proper paperwork, he says he is never going back. “This was six months, next time it could be six years,” he says on a recent day in this tiny town tucked in the foothills of the Sierra de Guanajuato mountains. “*

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