News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, December 18, 2006

Long hours, low pay are standard in Mexico

Dreary jobs at home add to lure of U.S.
08:24 AM CST on Monday, December 18, 2006
Arizona Republic / Associated Press
AP Photo

PHOENIX – Reynaldo Patino makes $18 a day.

It's a normal wage for Mexico. And that is exactly the problem.

Patino gets up at 5 a.m. in a one-room shack in a poor suburb where he lives with his wife, daughter and niece. He works 11 hours a day cooking corn tortillas at a shop in central Mexico City. He gets home at 8 p.m.

The next morning, he does it all over again. Six days a week. No vacations. Ever.

Welcome to a typical life in Mexico: a world of long hours, low pay and prices that are much higher than in the United States. It is those economic pressures that drive Mexicans to the United States and that lie at the heart of the illegal immigration problem.

posted by missionaryman | 10:09 AM

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