U.S. Border Patrol tightened security
More than 10 percent of the county of Santa Fe, growth in the years 1990 have represented at international level on immigrants, most from Central America. Some complain the newcomers drive down wages, drain and culture change. Others say that only add that mixture.
It is the first instalment of a series of several reports North-Journal planned for the coming months, as immigrants from Mexico and other Central American countries change in Santa Fe and people’s lives live here.
After heranschleichend the USA in 1994, former Mexican policeman Benito Gonzales worked for a construction job three years in northern New Mexico and save enough money to smuggle his wife and three boys very committed to the border.
“It depends, you will get your chance to cross the border,” Gonzales said in Spanish in an interview his family a mobile home in Arroyo Seco. “Sometimes you spend all night or the entire day here.
“With children, it is more difficult. You have more space, “he said.” If the coyote, said running, running. ”
Coyotes or human traffickers have been a booming business since 1993, with the U.S. Border Patrol tightened security along the 2100-mile border. The increased security has helped in the desert frontier of risk or mountainous terrain, with hundreds of illegal immigrants die during its futile search for a better life.
Gonzales, who is a pseudonym for use in this story, left his homeland in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, because he does not have a life of dignity and did not foresee the future for its children.
With the deterioration of the Mexican economy in the years 1990, Gonzales said he had to work a month earn $ 10. The government promises, it has not been able to maintain local schools and classes not available in English or computer of his three boys.
It is a difficult decision Gonzales, the choice to leave his family behind, and he could save money by illegally in New Mexico. He has not seen his family for the next three years, he recorded during 3000 and borrowed $, it must be do they do at the border.
Gonzales, 33, paid $ 450 for a coyote furtively on the border in 1994 and made its way into Espanola, where his wife and father of four of his brothers was resolved.
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