Short on Labor, Farmers in U.S. Shift to Mexico
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Concerned about a crackdown on immigrant labor, more farmers have been moving across the border to Mexico.
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Gone are the days when Americans on the lam could look to Mexico as a refuge. Extraditions and deportations have risen sharply as U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials work closely together to bring suspected criminals to justice.
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As an economic slowdown and the subprime mortgage crisis deepen across the United States, Hispanic immigrants are increasingly in danger of losing their jobs and their homes.
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For nations like Mexico, it's far easier to push jobless workers abroad thsn to reform a sick economic system.
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In the 1960s, farm labor leader Cesar Chavez rallied fieldhands to speak out against a guest worker program that recruited millions of Mexicans to pick crops at low wages.
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Farmer Phil Prutch isn't sure about putting Colorado convicts to work in his fields this summer. But then again, he says, he doesn't have much of a choice.
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Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultry plant is scrambling to replace more than half its workforce. Business has dried up at stores where Mexican laborers once lined up to buy food, beer and cigarettes just weeks ago.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox told hundreds of farm workers here Wednesday that his country and the United States can&#039;t go it alone in trying to fix immigration problems.
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GUIHUA, China -- For years now, nearly half the rice, wheat and vegetable farmers in this village in Henan province have been unable to make a living off their land. They have turned instead to more profitable migrant work in large, faraway cities.
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico  - When the bottom fell out of  Mexico's economy a decade ago, Francisco Martinez stopped  voting.
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A small but growing group of Mexican citizens are creating parallel lives in Houston, Dallas and other cities north of the border.
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After years of strong increases, the amount of migrant money flowing to Mexico has stagnated.
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Cold, hard cash is apparently not enough to quell the anger among landowners over a planned fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Colorado is considering letting prison inmates work on private farms after farmers complained that an illegal-immigration crackdown has left them short-handed, officials said.
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Thousands of Mexican farmers, some riding tractors and herding cows, flooded the capital on Thursday to demand government protection against cheap U.S. imports.
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- Mexico lobbied for six years for a comprehensive immigration reform that would allow millions to cross into the United States legally. Instead, they're getting a fence.
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Scores of volunteers gathered at a remote ranch Saturday to help a civilian border-patrol group start building a short security fence in hopes of reducing illegal immigration from Mexico.