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> The prospect has business owners in the valley on edge. Patricia Pantoj runs a travel agency in Madera, north of Fresno, where the city’s approximately 60,000
by tomjakubowski 10y ago
> The prospect has business owners in the valley on edge. Patricia Pantoj runs a travel agency in Madera, north of Fresno, where the city’s approximately 60,000 residents are predominantly Latino and work in the fields. This year, she said, fewer people than ever before traveled back to their hometowns in Mexico.
> “They didn’t want to risk it,” she said. “Everyone is scared, even if they have papers.”
So policy which was intended to reduce the number of immigrant workers might have an actual effect of turning undocumented temporary/seasonal migrants into permanent denizens.
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- bryanlarsen 10y agoThat's been obvious from the start. Trump is going to destroy the Mexican economy so they're going to flood the States looking for work. NAFTA kept a lot more Mexicans out of the US than any wall ever will.
- analbeads 10y agoI'm sure scores of them will be getting past a heavily guarded border, dodging a rapidly expanding ICE, and getting employed when e-verify is required nationwide. NAFTA caused the illegal immigration crises by destroying small farms in Mexico with heavily subsidized American corn.