Making a Living in the Shadows.
Rapporteur line: Brendan Smith Journal Northern Bureau
SANTA FE, as leader of the State Police in Mexico, Benito by law, south of the border. Now, it cancels the law every day in northern New Mexico.
The 33-year-old father of three is one of thousands of illegal immigrants provides the backbone of the work in a large number of low-paid jobs while New Mexico, live in a world where the shadow of the tower at the supermarket will against the legislation.
Benito, did not want his real name is used, can not be a legitimate social insurance number, no driver’s license and is not self-assurance. But it continues, because the lack of transport.
After heranschleichend the USA in 1994, he worked for the construction job three years in northern New Mexico and save enough money to smuggle his wife and three boys very attached to the border.
“It depends, you will get your chance to cross the border,” he said in Spanish in an interview his family a mobile home in Arroyo Seco. “Sometimes you spend all night or the entire day here.”
More than 37000 illegal immigrants living in New Mexico, the vast majority of them from Mexico or Central America. According to estimates, their number is growing by about 1000 to 3000, each year, according to a study conducted in 1996 by USA immigration and naturalization.
Thousands of immigrants, both legal and illegal, it draws to northern New Mexico, despite the importance of cost of living in Santa Fe.
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