Bad Economy Affects Undocumented Immigrants

The economic crisis in the United States is having its effect on undocumented migrants. Elliot Spagat writes for the Associated Press:

After struggling to pay his $300 monthly rent and send money to his wife and two children back in Honduras, Dionisio Urbina has given up. The day laborer is saving for a one-way plane ticket home.

Thousands of Latin American immigrants both legal and illegal are going back home as the economic crisis in the United States causes jobs to dry up in the construction, landscaping and restaurant industries.

The flow of immigrants back across the border tends to be cyclical, with many people going back home for the Christmas holidays. But some authorities say they are seeing a bigger-than-usual reverse-immigration effect this year.

Mexico City’s municipal government predicts between 20,000 and 30,000 immigrants above the usual number will return from the United States in the next few months because they cannot find work. Click here for the rest of the story.

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